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  Bush’s Diplomacy

  As President Bush set off this week for an eight-day visit to Asia, his aides were trying to portray the trip as a low-stakes jaunt to show the flag in an important region. Bush was to attend a Pacific Rim summit in Korea, talk business with China, and shore up some friendly relationships in Japan…

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  Peretz’s Moment

  The Israel Labor Party has had these moments before, when a man on horseback arrives to take the fading party by storm and promise it a new lease on life. Two years ago it was Amram Mitzna, the brainy ex-general-turned-mayor who emerged from obscurity to seize the party’s reins and lead it to a disastrous…

  Nov 18, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Contempt for God Is Stealing America’s Morals

  I’m not a regular reader of Glamour magazine, but my wife was studying the current volume of that journal when a headline caught my eye: “The Man Who Stole My Life,” a story about hairdresser Kelly Stein. One day a transvestite named Debbie entered Stein’s beauty salon in Greensburg, Pa. “Raised never to judge” other…

  By David Klinghoffer Nov 18, 2005 | 3 min read

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• Alyssa Katz My summer plans prove it: The Jewish Catskills are alive and kicking

  

• Rob Eshman ‘Remember the Liberty’ has become code for ‘Israel Is Evil’ 

  

• Dan Perry The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel

  

• Emily Tamkin Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point

  

• Jay Michaelson You’re wrong, Ken Paxton: Obviously God is nonbinary

  

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  An Injustice to Saddam’s Victims

  Last week Adil al-Zubeidi, a leading defense lawyer in the trial of Saddam Hussein and his erstwhile political colleagues, was assassinated on the streets of Baghdad. It was the second such killing in less than a month, and it has caused many to question whether the trial can be a fair one. How, more than…

  By Richard Goldstone Nov 18, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Way We War

  Three months ago this column was devoted to a comparison between the Israeli military and the American armed forces, focusing on the differing public attitudes associated with a conscription-based army as opposed to a volunteer force. In particular, the relative absence in the United States of organized mass protest concerning the war in Iraq, seemingly…

  By Yossi Alpher Nov 11, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Disabuse Community of Intolerance

  The resignation last week of Rabbi David Kaye from the educational program Panim, after revelations that he had solicited a 13-year-old boy online for sex, elicited the usual expressions of shock from the Jewish community. Of course, we all should be outraged when such immoral conduct is brought to light, but those who follow the…

  By Jay Michaelson Nov 11, 2005 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  We Are Responsible

  Who is responsible for the New Orleans catastrophe? A one-word answer might well be “we.” The conclusion is based on the history of floods from Noah to New Orleans. Too often, in trying to explain the origin of natural phenomena, we are inclined to overlook the role of humans — individually or collectively — in…

  By Gus Tyler Nov 11, 2005 | 2 min read
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  Poisoned Orchard

  Here’s the scenario: You’re watching television, and suddenly, there’s the president of the United States saying, “We’ve received reports that the nine American soldiers kidnapped last week by terrorists in Iraq are being subjected to brutal torture. This outrage must stop, and it must stop immediately. It is a violation of international law, and it…

  By Leonard Fein Nov 11, 2005 | 4 min read
• Letters

  November 11, 2005

  The Cost of Free Tickets Opinion writer Diana Furchtgott-Roth says that churches have open-door policies on Christmas and Easter (“High Holy Days Ticket Prices Are Costing Community,” November 4). That is true. But she leaves out the part that churches have many more members to support their activities than synagogues. A good-sized synagogue will have…

  Nov 11, 2005 | 3 min read
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  Rage, Islam and France

  It’s doubtless a mistake, as French government authorities insisted endlessly this week, to see the rioting by immigrant youth that has wracked France for the past two weeks as an expression of Muslim extremism, religious or otherwise. All the evidence indicates that the violence stems from feelings of alienation and frustration among immigrants and their…

  Nov 11, 2005 | 2 min read
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  Four Days in November

  The followers of the late Meir Kahane may be called deluded and a lot of other things, and they would constitute a genuine threat to society if they weren’t, as a group, so ineffectual. But none of those is a capital offense. It’s more than a little disturbing that federal prison authorities allowed Earl Krugel,…

  Nov 11, 2005 | < 1 min read