Opinion

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  June 10, 2005

  Paper’s Refusal of Ad Upholds Torah Values One wonders if a Jewish newspaper that decided not to accept ads for non-kosher restaurants or for Sabbath bingos would ever find itself the target of outraged criticism (“Buffalo Synagogue Boycotts a Paper for Nixing Gay Ad,” May 27). Yet the owners of the Buffalo Jewish Review, Rita…

  5 min read
• Opinion

  Nickels and Dimes

  Given the magnitude of the crisis, there is cause to celebrate this week in the tentative accord on African debt relief that was reached in Washington between President Bush and the visiting British prime minister, Tony Blair. Thanks to Blair’s persuasiveness, Bush has now agreed to lift America’s objections and let the World Bank proceed…

  Jun 10, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Thumping

  Few issues are higher on the political agenda of American Jews than the injection of religion into public life. Having fought for generations for the right to be considered full-fledged citizens of our country, we take exception to actions — public prayers, restrictive laws, declarations of faith — that suggest our Americanness is less complete…

  Jun 10, 2005 | < 1 min read

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

  

• Rob Eshman Liberal Zionists are under attack. A new book proves their work has never been more important

  

• 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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  Territorial Indigestion

  A reader writes, asking how it is that I have not written about Israel in many weeks. Reasonable question. It’s not because there’s been so much else going on here at home, although there has been; I am quite used to dividing my time and my attention. Nor is it that there’s been no news…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 10, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Nature of Being Ashkenazic

  We Jews call ourselves a family, and in many ways — for better and for worse — we act as if we were. We continue to preserve common laws, habits, language, texts and historical memories, as well as the belief that all of these are the gifts of an unknowable Deity who began our place…

  By Robert Pollack Jun 10, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Are We Being Fair to Messianic Jews?

  When you write a book called “Why the Jews Rejected Jesus” and make your e-mail address available on a Web site bearing your name, as I’ve done, you are going to get a lot of e-mail from strangers. Some of it will be friendly, some hostile and some just heartbreaking. In the last category, I…

  By David Klinghoffer Jun 10, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Protecting the Wall

  On the face of it, the United States Supreme Court’s ruling this week on the religious rights of prisoners covers a fairly narrow field: It merely upholds one recent federal law that limits the ability of certain local authorities — mainly prisons and zoning commissions — to curtail religious practices. But while the direct impact…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 3 min read
• Letters

  June 3, 2005

  Airing Bias on NPR The attack by Samuel Freedman in a May 27 opinion article against the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, as well as his defense of National Public Radio’s Middle East coverage and his claims about initiatives by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are alarming considering that he is…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 6 min read
• Opinion

  Israel Journeys

  The Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel took an important step forward this week with the launch of Masa, or Israel Journey, the new, multimillion-dollar effort to promote long-term study and volunteering in Israel by young adults. Experience shows there’s nothing better than a semester or two in Israel to strengthen human and…

  Jun 3, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Matters of Distinction

  One of the signal contributions of the American Jewish Committee, over many years now, has been its stream of publications reporting on and analyzing our community. Its annual “American Jewish Yearbook” has long been a staple in Jewish libraries; as David Harris wrote in his foreword to Volume 100, which appeared in the year 2000,…

  By Leonard Fein Jun 3, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Price of Multi-payer Health Care

  A memorable moment in the 1997 movie “As Good As It Gets” comes when the protagonist played by Helen Hunt, a hard-working waitress and mother of an asthmatic little boy, loses it when she learns that her health insurer will not pay for a doctor-advised diagnostic test. She explodes: “Those f—king HMO bastard pieces of…

  By Kathleen Peratis Jun 3, 2005 | 3 min read