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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…
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Opinion 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…
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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…
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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…
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Opinion 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…
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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…
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Opinion License With Language
No, Dikla, this was not a pogrom. The reference is to Dikla Cohen, whose photograph being escorted out of her home in Gush Katif appeared on page 1, above the fold, of The New York Times of August 18. In the caption beneath the photo, she is quoted as saying, “I feel today was a…
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Opinion Losing Iraq
From a purely symbolic point of view, President Bush hardly could have picked a more unfortunate day than this past Monday to emerge from vacation and speak out in defense of his Iraq war policy. Beset by falling polls and burgeoning anti-war protests, Bush chose a friendly audience at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention…
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Opinion Breaking the Ice on Warming
There was, according to news reports, a heartening spirit of compromise in evidence in Greenland last week when officials from 23 nations gathered to discuss global warming. The occasion was a four-day visit to the massive Ilulissat glacier, a United Nations landmark that is rapidly melting into the ocean. Hosted by Denmark, which governs Greenland,…
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Opinion The Difficulty, and Ease, of Uprooting Jews
We are only days away from the lowering of the last Israeli flag in Gaza and the withdrawal of the last Israeli soldier. As one of the Jewish people’s and the Zionist enterprises’ most moving and profound dramas comes to a conclusion, many pens and keyboards will pour forth with punditry and wit of greater…
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Opinion Divest Anti-Israel Prejudice From Churches
There is a battle taking place within mainstream Christian churches across America. A small cadre dedicated to the triumph of the Palestinians at the price of the destruction of Israel is trying to influence the Middle East policies of the American Christian community. As a result, Jews and Christians are often undermined as they work…
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