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  Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Auschwitz is much more than just a part of me — it is all of me. The same holds true for each and every survivor. As Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated this year on May 6, 60 years after the liberation of the camps, not too many of us are still alive. None of us…

  By Roman Kent

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• Letters

  May 6, 2005

  On Armenian Genocide Opinion writers Christine Thomassian and Shabtai Gold take Israel to task for not taking a stand on the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 by Turkey (“Who Remembers the Armenians?” April 29). Why pick on Israel? How many nations have officially condemned Turkey for that massacre? Isn’t it being a trifle…

  May 6, 2005 | 2 min read
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  One Last Shot At Two States

  Back then — “then” meaning 1967, in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War — all the talk about long-range solutions to the chronic Israel-Arab crisis involved a return of the West Bank to Jordan. The intention was to initiate an era of peace and security, and it seemed clear that one precondition for such…

  By Leonard Fein May 6, 2005 | 4 min read

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  Looking for Sparks of Justice

  International justice has taken a pasting during the watch of this administration. In 2002, President Bush said, “We want the United Nations to be effective, and respectful, and successful. We want the resolutions of the world’s most important multilateral body to be enforced.” But this year he nominated John Bolton to be America’s representative to…

  By Kathleen Peratis May 6, 2005 | 4 min read
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  How To Keep Politicians Honest, Courtesy of the British Electorate

  From the Isle of Wight in the south to Leeds in the north, the Liberal Democrats seem to have captured the British public’s imagination. Long considered the United Kingdom’s “third party,” the Liberal Democrats are expected to pick up a number of seats in the general elections scheduled for May 5. The party’s campaign success…

  By Julia Neuberger Apr 29, 2005 | 5 min read
• Letters

  April 29, 2005

  Review Lacks Context Of Ethiopians’ Rescue Arts & Culture writer Amir Shaviv ends his April 1 review of Steve Spector’s meticulously researched book on Operation Solomon by attacking the activists who put the issue of rescuing Ethiopian Jews on the agenda of world Jewry, and who put their own lives at risk to get the…

  Apr 29, 2005 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Remembering Tomorrow

  Memory, as the scholar Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi once elegantly taught us, is different from history. History is, as far as we can make it so, a record of what happened. True, anything that happens is susceptible to a variety of interpretations, and the Sergeant Friday approach to history — “Just the facts, Ma’am” — is…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 29, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Let the Remembering Begin

  In six days’ time, on the 26th of the Hebrew month of Nisan, Jewish communities in Israel and around the world will gather for the annual ritual of remembrance known as Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Solemn assemblies will be held in synagogues, museums and government buildings. Around the world the ritual will be…

  Apr 29, 2005 | 3 min read
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  Quiet, Dons

  Great Britain’s academic community brought shame on itself last week with the incomprehensible decision by the country’s largest college teachers’ union, the Association of University Teachers, to boycott two Israeli universities. The decision should be rescinded at once. The resolution, adopted Friday by a slim majority of the association’s council, charges the two Israeli institutions…

  Apr 29, 2005 | 2 min read
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  Why This Week Shouldn’t Be Different From Others

  Last Saturday night, American Jews, their friends and their families sat down to the most widely observed tradition in our community, the Passover Seder. Like most rabbis, I am always happy to see people engaged with Jewish practice. But unless the practices and rituals that mark the celebrations and sacred moments of the collective calendar…

  By Rabbi Brad Hirschfield Apr 29, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Who Remembers the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler was confident that the world would remain indifferent to the plight of the Jewish people he was planning to exterminate. After all, he reportedly told Nazi commanders before the outbreak of World War II, who remembers the Armenians? The answer to Hitler’s rhetorical question remained much the same as the 90th anniversary of…

  By Christine Thomassian and Shabtai Gold Apr 29, 2005 | 3 min read