Opinion

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  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…

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• 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

  We Reap What They Sew

  The sweatshops of the Lower East Side and the largely Jewish-led labor movement to which they gave rise are part of Jewish iconography. My Russian-born, Brooklyn-bred mother-in-law was able to support her disabled husband, her young son and her own widowed mother on her wages as a seamstress in a Lower East Side garment factory…

  By Kathleen Peratis Apr 1, 2005 | 4 min read

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  When Academia Favors Values Over Facts

  At Campus Watch, one of the main problems we address is politics disguised as pedagogy. Our critique of Columbia University’s Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department, at the center of the recent, much-publicized controversy, has been that faculty members present their own political opinions to the exclusion of others and in place of…

  By Alexander Joffe Apr 1, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Call the Massacre In Darfur by Its Name: Genocide

  As the United Nations Security Council deliberated this week on whether to send suspected Sudanese war criminals to the International Criminal Court for atrocities committed in Darfur, one man was noticeably absent from the proceedings. Not once in the recent U.N. report on which the Security Council decision was to be based was Raphael Lemkin’s…

  By William Korey Apr 1, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Increasing Joy

  Purim, the festive day celebrated by Jews around the world this weekend, is a children’s holiday with very adult undertones. Recalling the famous victory recounted in the biblical Book of Esther, in which the Jews of Persia foiled a plot by the wicked viceroy Haman to destroy them, it is celebrated with costumes, noisemakers and…

  Mar 25, 2005 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  Losing the Forest for the Trees

  For more than 100 years, the name Jewish National Fund — and the name of our primary agent in Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael — has stood for three things: uniting Jews everywhere with the land of Israel, developing that land into a thriving and vibrant home for the Jewish people, and promoting Zionism through education….

  By Russell Robinson Mar 25, 2005 | 3 min read
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  In the Mideast’s Outpost of Democracy, Settlers Openly Flout the Law

  Israeli attorney Talia Sasson has delivered an interim report about illegal outposts, those settlements in the West Bank that have been built without official Israeli authorization for more than a decade. After months of research and frustration in dealing with stonewalling bureaucrats, she managed to document what Peace Now has been saying for years: The…

  By Dror Etkes Mar 25, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  March 25, 2005

  N.Y. Politician Wrong To Demonstrate in Gaza The visit by New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind and some 40 other Americans to offer support and solidarity to Gaza’s Jews reminds me, ironically, of the support and solidarity of the International Solidarity Movement for Gazan Palestinians (“U.S. Foes of Pullout Mobilize To Sink Plan,” March 11)….

  Mar 25, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Starvelings on Our Doorstep

  Jake, the hero of Mordecai Richler’s underappreciated 1971 novel, “St. Urbain’s Horseman,” “had expected the coming of the vandals. Above all, the injustice collectors. The concentration camp survivors. The emaciated millions of India. The starvelings of Africa…. The demented Red Guards of China are going to come, demanding theirs, followed by the black fanatics, who…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 25, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Mars vs. the Mullahs

  Nothing so tests the ingenuity and will of humankind as the exploration of the unknown. That primordial drive explains, more than scientific or technological progress, the continuing grip of space travel on our imagination. It reminds us that we are, after all, human, specks floating in a limitless expanse that we are nonetheless commanded to…

  Mar 25, 2005 | 3 min read