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• Opinion

  Albert Einstein’s Forgotten Legacy

  This year there are countless conferences, exhibitions and publications dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis, the miracle year in which he revolutionized our concepts of time, space, energy and matter. But since his death 50 years ago this week, scant attention has been paid to his political and social opinions, writings…

  By Ze’ev Rosenkranz

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• Opinion

  The Four Questions of the Peace Process

  Disengagement is going to happen this summer. That is now the working assumption of most observers and practitioners. Even the settlers, the “victims” of disengagement, are increasingly recognizing the inevitable and are correspondingly adjusting their opposition tactics toward merely making the experience as unpleasant as possible. In so doing, they hope to persuade the Israeli…

  By Yossi Alpher Apr 22, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Crossing to The Promised Land

  Passover is on my mind. Some language — and some ideas — for the Seder: Each cup we raise tonight is an act of memory and of reverence. The story we tell, this year as every year, is not yet done. It begins with them, then; it continues with us, now. We remember not out…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 22, 2005 | 4 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

  April 15, 2005

  An Extraordinary Man, As Priest and as Pope Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former chief rabbi of Israel, once told me about a conversation he had with Pope John Paul II (“Pope Oversaw Big Changes in Catholic-Jewish Relation,” April 8). Lau told the pope of a story he had heard about a Polish woman bringing a…

  Apr 15, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Buds of Hope, Unblossomed

  Passover nears, and perhaps this time the winter has really passed. There are some early buds of a late-blooming hope. That hasn’t been so for a while now, so — without letting ourselves be carried away — let us allow ourselves to hope. First, there is the promised withdrawal from Gaza. It has yet to…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 15, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  In Body Politic, but Not in Spirit

  Reverend Jim Wallis, editor of the idiosyncratically Christian journal Sojourners, has spent the past 30-plus years advocating what he calls “a progressive and prophetic vision of faith and politics.” His latest book, “God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong,” has struck a chord, spending 11 weeks so far on The New York Times’s bestseller…

  By David Klinghoffer Apr 15, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Sharon at the Ranch

  Summit meetings typically are staged events whose purpose is to let two leaders throw their arms around each other and tell the world how much they have in common. Now and then, though, a summit is staged with the opposite goal: to let the leaders bump up against each other and show off their differences….

  Apr 15, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Drunken-sailor Economics

  It barely caused a ripple on the news pages, but America took another big step this week toward former-superpower status with the announcement by the Commerce Department that our trade deficit had set a new record in February. The deficit, the difference between exports and imports, came to $61 billion, thanks to Americans’ insatiable taste…

  Apr 15, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  What Feminism Can Teach Jewish Organizations

  In a world in which Lawrence Summers can impugn the genetic capacity of women to excel in math and science and otherwise reasonable people suggest that he might be right, it should come as no surprise that women working in Jewish communal agencies continue to run up against a glass ceiling. But what may come…

  By Rona Shapiro Apr 15, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Goal of Equality

  Whenever I want to have a sense of what’s going on with Israeli Arabs, I take a ride with Zachariah, my favorite taxi driver. Zachariah lives in Beit Nakuba, a village on the main road to Jerusalem. In 1948 his parents made a strategic decision not to fight the Jews. It was a decision they…

  By Uri Dromi Apr 15, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  April 8, 2005

  Ugandan Government Is Failing Its People As a native of Acholiland, I highly commend the Forward for exposing the slow-motion genocide perpetuated in northern Uganda during the past 18 years by the Lord’s Resistance Army and the equally ruthless Ugandan national army (“Children Forced To Become Killers, Sex Slaves in Forgotten Uganda War,” April 1)….

  Apr 8, 2005 | 5 min read