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  The Schoolteacher and the Government’s Watch List

  ere’s a little story about a close friend of 32 years. A 61-year-old grandmother with an Ivy League masters degree, she teaches fifth grade at a fancy private school in Englewood, N.J. She also does after-school tutoring and has been caught, on more than one occasion, venturing out in a snowstorm to help yet another…

  By Mickey Pearlman

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• Letters

  Letter April 7, 2006

  Editorial Romanticizes U.S. Support for Israel In a March 24 editorial on John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s controversial polemic on the “Israel lobby” (“In Dark Times, Blame the Jews”), the Forward states that “Israel has had the support of successive American administrations in large part because it enjoys the sympathy of much of the American…

  Apr 7, 2006 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  The Jackson-Robertson Test

  Imagine: 4,500 Jews in convention assembled, listening rapturously to a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney. Shooter Cheney — his man Lewis Libby was “Scooter,” so why not? — spoke for 35 minutes and was interrupted 48 times by the delegates’ applause. That’s once every 43.7 seconds. And the 4,500 were at the American Israel…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 31, 2006 | 4 min read

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  Building Identity, One Roof at a Time

  To me, a well-constructed roof looks a lot like Jewish identity (“Teach Model Citizenship by Example,” March 10). Right now, 700 Jewish college students are in New Orleans and i n Biloxi, Miss., cleaning up the damage wrought by hurricanes Katrina and Rita nearly seven months ago. The chugging of the air compressor, punctuated by…

  By Michelle Lackie Mar 24, 2006 | 3 min read
• Letters

  March 24, 2006

  Rabbi’s ‘Medical’ View Of Gays Simply Wrong I should like to thank the Conservative movement Rabbinical Assembly’s Rabbi Leonard Levy for giving us his expert medical opinion on the nature of homosexuality (“Gay Issues Roil Rabbis In Advance Of Parley,” March 17). Were we not in the blessed position of being enlightened by Levy, we…

  Mar 24, 2006 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  In Dark Times, Blame the Jews

  On the face of it, there’s little that’s new in the provocative research paper “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” published online last week by two leading political scientists, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Their underlying thesis, that Israel’s advocates have pressured America into an unjustified and damaging alliance with Israel, has been around…

  Mar 24, 2006 | 7 min read
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  A Moderate in America, With No Political Party To Call Home

  I propose importing Kadima, Israel’s new centrist party, to the United States. I don’t mean that we need yet another Jewish organization; quite the contrary. Instead I am plugging an excellent observation first sketched by Jonathan Rauch in the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly. In his essay, Rauch argues that American politics is broken…

  By David Twersky Mar 24, 2006 | 4 min read
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  The U.N. Reforms, Despite Bolton’s Best Efforts

  The United Nations Commission on Human Rights has long been an embarrassment to the decent nations of the world. Its membership has included the world’s worst abusers of human rights — Sudan, for example, and Cuba and Zimbabwe — who have used their membership to protect themselves and each other from condemnation for their human…

  By Kathleen Peratis Mar 24, 2006 | 4 min read
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  In Defense of Morton Klein and ZOA

  The Forward got it right when it called the Zionist Organization of America “a storied century-old organization which is arguably the most prominent American opponent to [one-sided] Israeli territorial concessions and American aid to the Palestinians with fiery speeches, press releases, frequent newspaper opinion pieces and intense lobbying in Washington who has won over big-name…

  By Alan Mazurek, and Henry Schwartz, and Janice Sokolovsky, and Michael Goldblatt, and Sheldon Fliegelman Mar 17, 2006 | 3 min read
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  A Modus Vivendi Between Jerusalem and Tehran

  Vice President Dick Cheney’s tough speech on Iran this past week in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was interrupted by applause no fewer than 48 times, including eight standing ovations. In the most explicit threat of military force to date by a senior member of the Bush administration, Cheney said that “the…

  By Trita Parsi Mar 17, 2006 | 4 min read
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  The Other Jewish Vote

  The results of the balloting for the American delegation to the World Zionist Congress, announced in New York this week, can easily be taken as evidence of the continuing decline of organized Zionism in this country. Voting in the quadrennial Zionist elections, which peaked in 1987 at close to a quarter-million voters, dropped this year…

  Mar 10, 2006 | 2 min read