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  Bigger Than Brad and Jen

  We’ve come a long way from “The Scarlet Letter.” What’s left of the gravity that once surrounded the Seventh Commandment, prohibiting adultery, could be observed in the news sensation of the past couple of weeks. No, I don’t mean the pullout from Gaza. I mean Brad Pitt’s pullout from his marriage to Jennifer Aniston, coinciding…

  By David Klinghoffer

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• Opinion

  Is Roberts a Lemon?

  The battle over Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is coming to a head, and though the deck is stacked against them, his liberal critics seem ready for a nasty fight to the finish. As Ori Nir reports on Page 1, one liberal advocacy group, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, issued a 19-page…

  By Ami Eden Sep 2, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Storm Warning

  Any hope that the worst of Hurricane Katrina had passed was destroyed Tuesday, as the levees protecting New Orleans from flooding gave way. It is hard to imagine how the Big Easy and the city’s 500,000 residents ever will recover. Still, as the ancient Rabbi Tarfon famously declared, “You are not required to complete the…

  Sep 2, 2005 | < 1 min read

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• Alyssa Katz Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

  

• Rob Eshman Trump is backed into a corner on Iran. Get ready for him to start blaming Jews

  

• Dan Perry How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood

  

• Emily Tamkin American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt

  

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

  

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  A Light Unto the Nations

  ‘Jews don’t evacuate Jews” was the slogan on the orange bumper stickers affixed to cars, waved about on banners that crowded the landscape, and shouted by protesters as we drove back into Jerusalem on August 18, after a long day in the Gaza Strip. I asked my Palestinian driver, a longtime Jerusalem resident, to tell…

  By Mara Rudman Sep 2, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Question Time for John Roberts

  Next week many Americans will be paying careful attention to the answers given by Judge John Roberts during his Senate confirmation hearings. This is to be expected, given the importance of the Supreme Court in the contemporary political constellation. Jews are no exception. The list of subjects of interest to the Jewish community on the…

  By Marc Stern Sep 2, 2005 | 4 min read
• Letters

  September 2, 2005

  Are Mainline Churches With Us or Against Us? David Elcott correctly exposes the divide between anti-Israel Protestant radicals and the majority of mainline Christians, who are committed to fairness and realism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (“Divest Anti-Israel Prejudice From Churches” August 26). We should follow this point to its logical conclusion. Protestant leaders need to…

  Sep 2, 2005 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Respecting Religious Diversity

  Right now there are men and women sitting in Humvees in Iraq or flying missions over the mountains of Afghanistan. In matters of religion and conscience they represent great diversity, but they are bound together in their professional duty by a commitment to Constitution and country. As American servicemen and women they are willing to…

  By Melinda Morton and Steve Israel Sep 2, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The West Bank Connection

  President Bush was right on the money when he lauded Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for “having made a very tough decision” to carry out the evacuation of settlements from Gaza and the northern West Bank, a bold choice of demography (i.e., a Jewish state) over geography (i.e., the Land of Greater Israel). Indeed, Sharon’s…

  By Mark Rosenblum Sep 2, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Prostituting the Constitution

  Let’s say you run an agency administering governmental disaster relief funds and, after a big hurricane, you are told you no longer will be permitted to administer funds unless you publicly announce that you are opposed to gay marriage — whether or not you actually oppose it, whether or not you even have an opinion….

  By Kathleen Peratis Aug 26, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Breaching ‘The Breaking Point

  The recent oil rally and record-high prices have sprouted a thriving cottage industry of energy millenarians — doomsayers warning that oil production has peaked and that a toxic mix of soaring demand and plummeting reserves is leading the world on a global collision course toward the “End of Oil.” That such predictions have been repeatedly…

  By Antoine Halff Aug 26, 2005 | 5 min read
• Letters

  August 26, 2005

  Fixated on Ghosts, Overlooking the Living Jo-Ann Mort’s August 12 “Letter From Berlin” is a perfect example of how some view the glass as half empty while others see it as half full (“Waves of Emptiness Mark History in German Capital”). I, too, was in Berlin recently. As the daughter of a Viennese man who…

  Aug 26, 2005 | 5 min read