Opinion

• Opinion

  Justice in Retirement

  While Americans squabble over a theoretical retirement crisis that may or may not develop over the next half-century, a real retirement crisis is unfolding before us right now, and nobody’s doing a thing. It’s called our collapsing pension system. The latest pension plan to collapse was the United Airlines plan, which the bankrupt airline dumped…

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• Opinion

  An Attempt To Arrest Our Alliance With Evangelicals

  The lobbying scandal that may lead to the downfall of Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — a conservative evangelical Christian purportedly sabotaged by his friendship with an Orthodox Jewish lobbyist, Jack Abramoff — is of interest for what it says about the value of honesty in the political and media elite. Abramoff is depicted…

  By David Klinghoffer May 13, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Under the Veil of Iran’s Nuclear Aspirations

  The Iran of May 2005 is, in some ways, looking very similar to the Iran of November 1979. Back then, when the American embassy in Tehran was seized by hardline university students, every other domestic issue was cast into oblivion. Nothing mattered more than the hostages. Nothing superseded the war with the “Great Satan.” The…

  By Roya Hakakian May 13, 2005 | 3 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman Americans keep getting killed in the West Bank. Here’s how the US could fight that awful trend

  

• Nora Berman First Camp Auschwitz, now Alligator Alcatraz — why the right is obsessed with commodifying brutality

  

• Dan Perry What exactly is going on between Israel and Syria — and is the prospect of peace dead?

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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• Letters

  May 13, 2005

  The Case for Bolton The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has earned a reputation for being tough on nominees for the post of America’s representative to the United Nations (“Senate Probes Bolton’s Pro-Israel Efforts,” May 6). Richard Holbrooke’s nomination was held up because Holbrooke was said to be too “arrogant” and “nasty” for the U.N. post….

  May 13, 2005 | 6 min read
• Letters

  May 6, 2005

  On Armenian Genocide Opinion writers Christine Thomassian and Shabtai Gold take Israel to task for not taking a stand on the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 by Turkey (“Who Remembers the Armenians?” April 29). Why pick on Israel? How many nations have officially condemned Turkey for that massacre? Isn’t it being a trifle…

  May 6, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  One Last Shot At Two States

  Back then — “then” meaning 1967, in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War — all the talk about long-range solutions to the chronic Israel-Arab crisis involved a return of the West Bank to Jordan. The intention was to initiate an era of peace and security, and it seemed clear that one precondition for such…

  By Leonard Fein May 6, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Looking for Sparks of Justice

  International justice has taken a pasting during the watch of this administration. In 2002, President Bush said, “We want the United Nations to be effective, and respectful, and successful. We want the resolutions of the world’s most important multilateral body to be enforced.” But this year he nominated John Bolton to be America’s representative to…

  By Kathleen Peratis May 6, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  That War, 60 Years Later

  The leaders of more than 50 nations representing some half the global community, including virtually every country in Europe as well as Japan, China, the United States, Canada and Israel, will gather in Moscow next week to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nazi surrender that ended World War II in Europe. The May 9…

  May 6, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Sharansky Bows Out

  The resignation of Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs, Natan Sharansky, should be an occasion for at least some kind of disturbance in the Israel-Diaspora relationship. That it passed without a ripple says much about the meaning of the Israeli post and of Sharansky’s own agenda on the job. The title of Diaspora affairs minister was…

  May 6, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  When Risk-taking Becomes a Victim

  Next week, the German people will inaugurate a Holocaust memorial of undulating concrete steles on five acres of prime Berlin real estate, just a stone’s throw from Hitler’s bunker. Perhaps it is time, then, for we Jews to also reevaluate our world view vis á vis the Holocaust. Yes, one third of our people were…

  By Joseph Hanania May 6, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Auschwitz is much more than just a part of me — it is all of me. The same holds true for each and every survivor. As Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated this year on May 6, 60 years after the liberation of the camps, not too many of us are still alive. None of us…

  By Roman Kent May 6, 2005 | 3 min read