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  When a Scholar Became Chancellor

  Who is Arnold Eisen? Few of my colleagues in the Conservative rabbinate have ever met this Stanford University professor, who was named last month to replace Ismar Schorsch as chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The appointment is sure to shape the character of the premier American institution of Jewish studies and the…

  By Elliot Cosgrove

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• Letters

  Letter April 28, 2006

  Support Rally Instead Of Predicting Its Size Frankly, an April 21 article on the national rally called by the Save Darfur Coalition is a new one on me — critiquing the turnout at an event before it happens, deploring the absolutely unknown size of a rally because it is not likely to be as big…

  Apr 28, 2006 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  What’s Good for General Motors

  During the roaring years of the post-World War II boom, when the American economy was running at super-speed to meet the needs of a crippled Europe and Japan as well as those of the folks at home, the president of General Motors Corporation, the nation’s largest, declared that what was “good for General Motors” was…

  By Gus Tyler Apr 28, 2006 | 2 min read

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  Next Sunday, Bless Our Feet

  By now, most of us know the frightening word: Janjaweed, the government supported marauders who have killed somewhere between 200,000 and 400,000 villagers in the Darfur region of Sudan and chased another 2 million from their homes. It turns out that Janjaweed is a real word; it means “armed men on horses.” There was an…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 28, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  EDITOR’S NOTE

  Due to an inexplicable editor’s lapse, an editorial in last week’s print edition, “Mad Logic,” mistakenly stated that the April 11 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv had been carried out by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and not by Islamic Jihad. In fact, it was Islamic Jihad, considered an Iranian client group, that claimed the deed….

  By J.J. Goldberg Apr 28, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Deeper Than We Know

  Mainstream America was exposed to a telling bit of Israel-Diaspora psychodrama the other night when our favorite American Jewish Everyman, television jokester Jon Stewart, hosted former Israeli spymaster Efraim Halevy for a chat about Halevy’s new memoir. Stewart, who makes his Jewishness and his liberalism regular parts of his ongoing shtick, showed an almost puppylike…

  Apr 28, 2006 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Jerusalem, the Eternal and Divisible Capital

  Last week, the Israeli government revoked the East Jerusalem residency rights of four Hamas parliamentarians, in response to the Palestinian government’s refusal to denounce a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The next day, Israel’s High Court ruled in favor of completing the separation wall surrounding Jerusalem. Taken together, the two decisions illustrate the degree to…

  By David Newman Apr 28, 2006 | 4 min read
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  A Public Intellectual Passes Away, But Not His Legacy

  The death of Arthur Hertzberg last week marks more than the passing of a great American Jewish personality. It reminds us of the rarity of a figure like Hertzberg, who paid little heed to the boundaries separating academic scholarship, rabbinic service, social activism and Jewish diplomacy. Indeed, his death harks back to an era in…

  By David Myers and Michael Berenbaum Apr 28, 2006 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Politics By Other Means

  It all sounds so depressingly familiar: We are giving diplomacy a chance, any suggestion that we are preparing for military action is “wild speculation” — but, at the same time, Iran represents a grave threat to world peace and is a haven for terrorism. Wait too long, and it will have nuclear weapons, international inspection…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 21, 2006 | 4 min read
• Letters

  Letter April 21, 2006

  Note Orthodox Record Of Government Service An April 7 article describes the hundreds of letters that were submitted on behalf of Jack Abramoff to U.S. District Judge Paul Huck, many from prominent rabbinic and lay leaders in the Orthodox community (“‘Dear Judge’: Religion-tinged Letters Praise Good Deeds of Felon Lobbyist”). Assuming that Abramoff is truly…

  Apr 21, 2006 | 5 min read
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  Rise Up and Remember

  On Passover eve, April 19, 1943, a group of young Polish Jews, members of socialist and Zionist youth groups, launched an armed uprising against the German troops that were massing to liquidate the surviving residents of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was a mad, hopeless act of desperation and defiance: fewer than 600 teenagers, armed with…

  Apr 21, 2006 | 3 min read