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Toward Theological Evolution
The passionately contested scientific critique of Darwinian evolution called “Intelligent Design” is hotter than ever. Yet in this controversy, with its profound moral and spiritual implications, the Jewish community has remained curiously abstracted and irrelevant. Our irrelevance stands out when you consider how many Christians, from President Bush to Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, have weighed in…
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Letters Letter August 5, 2005
Berg the First Ballplayer To Be Big in Japan? A July 29 article on the return of Gabe Kapler to the Boston Red Sox reports that Moe Berg is thought to have been the first Jewish ballplayer “to set up shop in Japan” (“Batter Back in Boston”). Berg did play in Japan in the 1930s,…
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Opinion Two-state Dissolution
Once upon a not so long-ago time, Israel’s Herut Party, which eventually mutated into today’s Likud, had as its theme song “Shtei Gadot Layarden” — “There are two sides to the Jordan [river], this one is ours and that one, too.” In short, all the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan as the one…
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Opinion Orneriness and Its Discontents
In the end, there was nothing but sheer orneriness driving President Bush’s decision to go behind the Senate’s back and send John Bolton to the United Nations by recess appointment. He embarrassed America and did Bolton no favor, but he got his way. If Bush had a point in the first place in nominating Bolton,…
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Opinion Standing With Israel
With just days to go before Israel begins pulling its troops and settlers out of Gaza and the northern West Bank, a weird air of unreality has settled over the subject. For most Israelis, soldier and civilian alike, the discussion is over, and little remains but to roll the trucks, clear out and hand over…
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Opinion Cultivate Communal Connection Beyond Organizational Affiliation
Everyone knows that there is a daunting number of Jewish organizations in America. A recent volume of the American Jewish Year Book lists more than 500 operating at the national level, not to speak of those operating locally. The veritable babble of acronyms underscores the community’s hyper-organized character: UJA, AJC, JDC, ADL, AIPAC, IPF, NIF,…
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Opinion One Governor’s Commitment to Survivors
Nine years ago, the financial losses suffered by Nazi victims suddenly received an extraordinary amount of attention. Dormant bank accounts in Switzerland and European insurance companies’ unpaid policies became headline news. But while victims found that their losses were of great public interest, few agencies were prepared to assist individual Holocaust survivors with their claims….
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Letters July 29, 2005
Rabbi a Model Soldier A July 1 article on the appointment of Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff to serve as an advisor to the Air Force as it responds to problems at the Air Force Academy is written to the point, but doesn’t do full justice to the individual (“Air Force Taps Rabbi To Aid on Academy…
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Opinion 16 Words for John Roberts
‘At a time when we see around the world the violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government, Americans may count themselves fortunate: Our regard for constitutional boundaries has protected us from similar travails, while allowing private religious exercise to flourish… Americans attend their places of worship more often than do citizens of…
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Opinion Solidarity Foreboding
The splintering of the AFL-CIO this week by the departing teamsters’ and service employees’ unions should be seen by liberals, progressives and friends of human rights everywhere as a terrible milestone in American social history. It should be, but it isn’t. And that’s the real tragedy. To be sure, the breakup was reported across the…
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Opinion Learning From the Bomb
Six decades after our nation unleashed the nuclear age by dropping atomic bombs on Japan, fully three-fifths of Americans believe a new world war is likely within their lifetimes. That’s the main finding of a new poll conducted by the Associated Press and a Japanese news agency in early July, to mark the August 6…
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