Opinion

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  Sharon’s Mission

  It might be none of our business, technically speaking, how Ariel Sharon chooses to spend what’s left of his political career. He’s shown himself over the years to be a master of his country’s political system; he can probably figure out without our help how to maneuver his way through the unrest in his Likud…

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  Prisons Are Creating Terrorists In Our Midst

  American prisons have become prime recruiting grounds for incubating prospective terrorists. Radical Islamic inmates have established their own system of indoctrination and recruitment under the cover of religious practice, a phenomenon known as “prison Islam.” Inmates who practice prison Islam generally adopt Muslim names and establish a cohesive social group of fellow Muslim prisoners who…

  By Yehudit Barsky Sep 30, 2005 | 3 min read
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  A Turn for Peace, But Whose?

  Prime Minister Sharon’s speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 15 was widely praised as confirmation of the old warrior’s turn toward peace. Even Ha’aretz, Israel’s most resolutely liberal major newspaper, called it “a speech of historical importance.” Perhaps. Medical technology, for all its sophistication, has yet to develop machinery that…

  By Leonard Fein Sep 23, 2005 | 4 min read

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• Jay Michaelson Epstein and Iran are an antisemitism mega-crisis. Here’s what Jewish organizations should do about it. 

  

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  What They’re Waiting For

  Israel’s leaders seemed to respond with gratification and discomfort in almost equal measures to the outpouring of warmth they received at the United Nations this month during the opening ceremonies of the world body’s 60th anniversary summit. It was a welcome they’d longed for, but it came with conditions. Prime Minister Sharon, whose very name…

  Sep 23, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Who’s for Democracy?

  In recent months, as efforts to stop the Gaza plan intensified, the settler movement and its Orthodox allies in America sought to broaden their appeal by painting themselves not merely as defenders of the faith, but also as champions of democracy. Even now, with the Gaza disengagement a fait accompli, opponents continue to attack the…

  Sep 23, 2005 | 2 min read
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  Wiesenthal

  The death of Simon Wiesenthal this week at 96 reminds us of some indivisible moral truths bequeathed to us by the Holocaust: that freedom cannot exist without justice; that guilt and responsibility rest with each individual; that one person can make a difference. Wiesenthal emerged from the Nazi hell convinced of those principles, and he…

  Sep 23, 2005 | < 1 min read
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  Downloading Democracy In the Middle East (With Some Help From America)

  Anyone who followed media coverage of the Gaza disengagement last month had to be struck by the presence of Arab satellite television networks in and among the settlements. Tens of millions of viewers of Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya could watch live broadcasts in which reporters, usually Israeli-Arab journalists, stuck their microphones in the faces…

  By Yossi Alpher Sep 23, 2005 | 3 min read
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  The Day Evil Became the Rule of Law

  Seventy years ago this month, Hermann Göring stood up in front of a special Reichstag session in Nuremburg and read out the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor. The decree was one of what came to be known as the Nuremberg laws, which peremptorily and ruthlessly wrought fundamental changes to the place…

  By Harry Reicher Sep 23, 2005 | 4 min read
• Letters

  September 23, 2005

  Engaging Intermarrieds Is Not a Zero-sum Game Opinion writers Jack Wertheimer and Steve Bayme mount a strong attack on the proponents of outreach to the intermarried and the programs they sponsor (“Real Realism on Intermarriage,” September 9). In effect, their position is that the only way to be sure that the children of an intermarriage…

  Sep 23, 2005 | 5 min read
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  Listening in Ellul

  These last weeks of summer, as the days shorten and the winter chill looms, are designated in the traditional Jewish calendar as the month of Ellul. It is the last month before the New Year, set aside as a time for reflecting and for taking stock. In a few weeks we will be called on…

  Sep 16, 2005 | < 1 min read
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  The Wrong Answer to the Iraq War

  If you are a Jew who believes that the American government’s invasion and occupation of Iraq has been a terrible ethical and practical misdeed, you now find yourself walking amid landmines. There is a broad spectrum of organizations that opposed the invasion of Iraq and is working to end the American military presence there. Many…

  By Arthur Waskow Sep 16, 2005 | 4 min read