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  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…

  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
• 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

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• 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
• Letters

  Letter January 20, 2006

  Group Opposes Alito Readers of a January 13 article about the Senate Judicial Committee hearings on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court might be left with the impression that The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring is not “mobilizing their membership” even though we do oppose Alito’s nomination (“Florida Democrat Chosen To Testify at Alito…

  Jan 20, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Go to Gush Etzion

  Facts and figments. As ever, Jerusalem is a riot of figments. Camp David, Taba, Geneva, back to Clinton, the road map, on and on, and trying to grab hold as each buzzes past is like trying to catch a mosquito: You’re sure you have it but when you open your hand there’s nothing there, so…

  By Leonard Fein Jan 13, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Sharon’s Legacy

  The stroke that felled Ariel Sharon last week ended one of the most compelling dramas now unfolding on the world stage, right in the middle of the second act. In disengaging from Gaza, Sharon had just orchestrated a diplomatic and military maneuver of incomparable complexity and daring, whose effect was to reshuffle the parameters of…

  Jan 13, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Deli Down

  The closing of the Second Avenue Deli, the landmark Lower East Side kosher eatery, has all the classic elements of a modern-day Jewish cultural crisis: The struggle for historical memory. The quest for generational continuity. The never-ending battle for control of the land on which we stand. And, of course, the search for a truly…

  Jan 13, 2006 | 2 min read
• Letters

  January 13, 2006

  Russian Films Capture Complexity of Novels Arts and culture writer Thane Rosenbaum claims that the “dark psychological complexity is not particularly well suited to cinema, which is why Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels have not been successfully adapted” (“Yeah, but the Book Is Better,” December 23). I am originally from Russia, and I know of at least…

  Jan 13, 2006 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Our Role in Promoting Holocaust Denial

  Last month, British historian David Irving was arrested in Austria for the crime of denying the Holocaust. When he goes on trial this February, facing up to a decade in prison, he could become a martyr for antisemitic kooks — kooks like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A couple of weeks ago, Ahmadinejad commented that, in…

  By David Klinghoffer Dec 30, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Gabi, the Baby Elephant, and Israel’s Political Zoo

  Just think of it: creatures treading in excrement, sniffing at each other’s behinds and slinging mud at each other, occasionally sticking their long noses into matters they don’t understand — all while the crowd stands outside the arena, intently watching and incessantly making comments but having no impact whatsoever. Now, isn’t that the quintessence of…

  Dec 30, 2005 | 2 min read