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The Year Of the Camel
As this year runs quite unlamentably out, it is well to fill in some of its blanks — bits and pieces you may have missed. Once every 10 years or so, there takes place something called a White House Conference on Aging. The fifth such was from December 11 to December 14 of this year….
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Opinion Dover, Darwin and The Assault on Science
There was more at stake than legal or constitutional quibbles over church-state separation in that federal court ruling handed down last week in Pennsylvania, barring the pseudo-science known as Intelligent Design from public-school biology classes. Read carefully, the judge’s decision was a ringing defense of science itself, and of the empirical method of reasoning that…
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Letters December 23, 2005
Article on Young Israel Unfair to Eliot Spitzer A December 9 article airs complaints from a disgruntled former employee of the state attorney general’s office (“Probe of Shul Group Had N.Y. Crimebuster’s Office in Tangles”). The article was misleading and unfair. Here are the facts about this matter: In 1999, the National Council of Young…
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Opinion Spielberg’s List
the debate as it unfolds on screen is an Israeli disputation, framed almost entirely in the words and deeds of Israelis: carrying out their deadly mission, questioning whether it will make things better, wondering whether it squares with their Jewish values, talking endlessly of home and family and the need to defend them. Arabs hardly…
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Opinion And in Other News, Darfur
Suddenly, overload. Here, the president permits spying on American citizens. In the West Bank, Hamas scores big in local elections. Here, the prospect of a major shift in the Supreme Court. In Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls the Holocaust “a myth,” says that Israel is “a tumor” that “must be wiped off the map.” Here,…
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Opinion Intelligent Decision
This week’s ruling by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III in the so-called Intelligent Design case in Pennsylvania is a courageous, historic step toward replacing the hysteria of our culture wars with some good sense and reason. Reason, in fact, is at the heart of the judge’s decision. In ruling that the Dover school…
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Opinion A Joyous Holiday Noise
Hanukkah seems almost anticlimactic this year. There’s been so much talk in recent weeks about the blurring of holiday messages and the proper place of religion in the public square that making a joyous holiday noise right now seems, well, a bit rude. Now isn’t the time to make trouble. In a way, though, that’s…
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Opinion Europe Must Act in Union To Influence Iran
This week Great Britain, France and Germany resumed talks with Iran over its nuclear program. All eyes are now watching whether the European Union, when it comes to Middle Eastern affairs, can play and not just pay. For the first time in its short history, the E.U. has a real opportunity to play a crucial…
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Opinion The Outrageous Silence Of George W. Bush
In calling the Holocaust “a myth,” as he did last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has drunk from the bloody cup shared by the malevolent enemies of equality and justice, the ultra right-wingers and haters who live in history’s shadows. Need it be said, again? The gas chambers, the bureaucratic system of murder, the efforts…
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Opinion If You’re Really Offended, You Gotta Go Caroling
It’s been a year since Bill O’Reilly publicly accused me of being part of the “War on Christmas.” When I called into his radio show to express concern about the effects on Jewish children of celebrating Christmas in the public schools, he infamously advised me that, “If you’re really offended, you gotta go to Israel.”…
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Opinion A Cut Above?
Nauseating stories of what goes on in meatpacking plants — from those in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” in 1906 to Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” in 2002 — have caused us to pass up, if only temporarily, the occasional steak or hot dog. One year, I even forwent turkey on Thanksgiving. But while our stomachs…
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