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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 Bringing Jerusalem Back Down to Size
Last week the government of Israel made a historic decision to leave a portion of Jerusalem outside the security barrier, thereby officially beginning the process of undoing the anachronistic post-Six-Day War annexation that has turned Israel’s capital into a bi-national nightmare. Ariel Sharon, of all people, has undertaken to allow the fence protecting Jerusalem to…
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Letters July 22, 2005
Reform Movement: Scalia Beyond the Pale A July 15 article reports that the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism “considers Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — the conservative judge that President Bush indicated is a presumptive mold for future nominees — as being well within the judicial mainstream” (“Jewish Groups Backing Away From Talk of…
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Opinion Judging Roberts
Years from now, when historians try to explain George W. Bush’s influence on the American political landscape, they may well start by pointing to July 19, 2005, the day he nominated John Roberts to the Supreme Court. In choosing Roberts, Bush appears to have found the combination that has eluded conservatives for a quarter-century in…
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Opinion Showdown in the Desert
The running confrontation in the Negev desert this week between Jewish settlers attempting to march into Gaza and Israeli troops determined to stop them was more than just another policy dispute. It was the opening of the deepest fissure yet in a gaping abyss that is dividing Israel in two and could ultimately swallow the…
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Opinion Judging Women By Their Merits
Does it matter that there will not be two women on the United States Supreme Court? Would it matter if there were none? Sexual politics heated up over the last two weeks as President Bush came ever closer to naming his choice to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whose retirement takes effect, by its terms,…
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Opinion Scandalous Partisanship
The Democratic sharks smell Republican blood in the water. As a consequence, they are zeroing in on Karl Rove in order to embarrass the president in what has become a tidal wave of partisanship. It is revealing, however, that these are toothless sharks on a hapless mission. There is the contention that Rove revealed Valerie…
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Opinion Raise the Bar in Israeli Politics
On a warm evening in June 2004, I attended a wedding held on Kibbutz Ma’aleh HaHamisha, in the hilly countryside outside Jerusalem. It was a smallish affair by Israeli standards, just 300 guests. Those seated with me included a radio journalist, an accountant, a social worker and a Brazilian immigrant who teaches dance. I also…
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Opinion The Illusions of London
Sixteen years ago, the Israeli folk-rocker Chava Alberstein went platinum with a searing song of despair about the unbearable uncertainty of life in Israel and the yearning to move someplace else where life could be simpler and safer. It was called “London.” “Goodbye, I’m going,” she sang. “Not that I have illusions about London. I’ll…
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Opinion Conquering
Perhaps there was a time when the secular-religious divide — it is of Jews I write — made sense. In Eastern and Central Europe during the period of 1850 to 1930, it may have been the case that “secular” Jews were genuinely secular, as some few remain today. But here, now? For all that the…
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Letters July 15, 2005
Ignore Shoah Deniers I take issue with a July 8 article on the Institute for Historical Review (“Holocaust Revisionists Take On Mideast Policy”), not because it was poor reporting but because printing it displayed irresponsible journalism. A study of the psycho-social background of most Holocaust revisionists would, in all probability, find people who grew up…
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