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  Sharon at the Ranch

  Summit meetings typically are staged events whose purpose is to let two leaders throw their arms around each other and tell the world how much they have in common. Now and then, though, a summit is staged with the opposite goal: to let the leaders bump up against each other and show off their differences….

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  Drunken-sailor Economics

  It barely caused a ripple on the news pages, but America took another big step this week toward former-superpower status with the announcement by the Commerce Department that our trade deficit had set a new record in February. The deficit, the difference between exports and imports, came to $61 billion, thanks to Americans’ insatiable taste…

  Apr 15, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  What Feminism Can Teach Jewish Organizations

  In a world in which Lawrence Summers can impugn the genetic capacity of women to excel in math and science and otherwise reasonable people suggest that he might be right, it should come as no surprise that women working in Jewish communal agencies continue to run up against a glass ceiling. But what may come…

  By Rona Shapiro Apr 15, 2005 | 3 min read

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  The Goal of Equality

  Whenever I want to have a sense of what’s going on with Israeli Arabs, I take a ride with Zachariah, my favorite taxi driver. Zachariah lives in Beit Nakuba, a village on the main road to Jerusalem. In 1948 his parents made a strategic decision not to fight the Jews. It was a decision they…

  By Uri Dromi Apr 15, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  April 8, 2005

  Ugandan Government Is Failing Its People As a native of Acholiland, I highly commend the Forward for exposing the slow-motion genocide perpetuated in northern Uganda during the past 18 years by the Lord’s Resistance Army and the equally ruthless Ugandan national army (“Children Forced To Become Killers, Sex Slaves in Forgotten Uganda War,” April 1)….

  Apr 8, 2005 | 5 min read
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  A World of Difference

  Israel’s prime minister is not a pope, nor are any of Israel’s chief rabbis. The chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is not a pope, nor is the president of the World Jewish Congress, even though his title seem close to papal in its resonance. Even the rebbe was not…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 8, 2005 | 4 min read
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  The Legacy of a Pope

  For those of us who are neither Catholic nor Christian, it was at first startling to witness the worldwide outpouring of emotion that greeted the death of Pope John Paul II. A man dies. His job comes open. A replacement will be chosen. One might expect this to be a time of grieving for those…

  Apr 8, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Elections Do Not a Democracy Make

  It may be the fondest wish of many outside the Middle East — and much more importantly, the wish of those who reside in the region — to move toward democratic freedoms, but wanting it and doing it are entirely different matters. Claiming that democracy is on the march does not make it so. It…

  By Kenneth Stein Apr 8, 2005 | 4 min read
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  In the Name of Values, Not Politics

  Few things can be more calculated to raise hackles and end calm discourse than using the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, as John Danforth did last week, to accuse the Republicans of being in thrall to “conservative Christians.” And when the finger being pointed belongs to a former Republican senator and member of…

  By Jeff Ballabon Apr 8, 2005 | 4 min read
• Letters

  April 1, 2005

  Revised ‘Passion’ Still Morally Irresponsible Mel Gibson still refuses to acknowledge what more than 100 biblical scholars and church leaders have said to him publicly: He is wrong in his presentation of responsibility for Christ’s death and is relaying the seeds of historic antisemitism in displaying it (“Less Gory ‘Passion’ Still Raises Hackles,” March 18)….

  Apr 1, 2005 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  The Uganda Plan

  Starting this week, the Forward begins a multipart series of articles looking at some of the civil conflicts that are wreaking havoc in the traditional societies of central Africa, one of the world’s poorest regions. We sent our correspondent Marc Perelman to spend several weeks in several countries, including Uganda, Congo and Rwanda, observing the…

  Apr 1, 2005 | < 1 min read