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  Letter February 3, 2006

  Trustees of Foundation Clearly Upheld Bylaws As a close friend of the late Leslie Keller and his wife, Vera, I read the January 20 article on the lawsuit being pursued by Menachem Kahn with surprise and anger (“Lawsuit Increases Scrutiny of World Jewish Congress”). My family and I had a particularly close relationship with the…

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• Opinion

  Is Olmert a Man Of Action?

  George Orwell taught us that the words used by political leaders may not mean what the same words mean in conventional discourse, what they mean according to our dictionaries. (So did Lewis Carroll.) Accordingly, it is worth noting a potential transformation in Israel — where three phrases, it seems, have begun overnight to mean just…

  By Leonard Fein Jan 27, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  In Praise of ‘Civilian’ Leadership

  Can Ehud Olmert fill the vacuum left by the mighty Ariel Sharon? This is the question that Israelis, and indeed, people all around the world, are currently asking. After all, Acting Prime Minister Olmert, likely winner of the upcoming March 28 elections, has no serious military background. And in a country besieged by terrorist, guerrilla,…

  By Uri Dromi Jan 27, 2006 | 4 min read

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  …Then They Came for Me

  The Justice Department’s investigation of two pro-Israel lobbying officials in Washington, shrouded in mystery for much of the past year and a half, is rapidly gaining some clarity as the case moves toward trial. As the fog lifts and the facts of the case become clear, some of the more paranoid conspiracy theories that have…

  Jan 27, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Love and the Pope

  In a world where religion and progressive thinking seem too often to be hopelessly at odds, there was a fresh breeze this week out of that most forbidding of citadels, the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI, greeted at his coronation eight months ago as an archconservative, issued his first encyclical on Wednesday, and it contained more…

  Jan 27, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  The Skewering Of Jack Abramoff

  From George Clooney to Orthodox rabbis, the list of those who have scathingly denounced Jack Abramoff seems endless. Given the admission of guilt by this Orthodox Jew and former super-lobbyist for Indian gambling tribes, is it possible to discover any grounds for sympathy with him? Actually, yes. But first a disclaimer. As I wrote in…

  By David Klinghoffer Jan 27, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Purse and the Sword

  Iraq is beginning to sound like a rerun of the Vietnam War, and not just because presidential critics again are crying out that the United States has fallen into a quagmire. Opponents of the American presence in Iraq are arguing that a wartime president has overstepped the Constitution and that, if Congress’s constitutional role in…

  By John Yoo Jan 27, 2006 | 6 min read
• Letters

  January 27, 2006

  Memory Under Attack I am very disappointed in the Forward, as well as in many other recent news articles, that seem to take a derogatory tone in their discussions of Elie Wiesel’s intent or that place disproportionate stress on small nuances, changes and minor mistakes in his memoir, “Night” (“Six Million Little Pieces?” January 20)….

  Jan 27, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Out of Many, Less Than One

  The polite way to put it is that we are a “voluntary community,” and that is surely the truth. But it is quite far from the whole truth, which is that we are an anarchic community. For better and now and then for worse, we have neither pope nor president, no hierarchical structure that speaks…

  By Leonard Fein Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Passion of the Texans

  As the law moves in on a pair of Texans — ex-Enron boss Ken Lay and ex-House majority leader Tom DeLay — now would be a good time for anybody who has anxiety over negative stories about Jews to start squirming. Lay, who is set to go on trial January 30 in Houston, faces seven…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Chile Future

  Elections in foreign countries have a way of capturing our imagination for a few days, reminding us briefly that there’s a big world out there, prompting some high-minded editorials and perhaps a dinner conversation or two, then fading from view. This week’s presidential run-off in Chile promises to be one of those events. The vote…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 4 min read