Opinion

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  One Last Shot At Two States

  Back then — “then” meaning 1967, in the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War — all the talk about long-range solutions to the chronic Israel-Arab crisis involved a return of the West Bank to Jordan. The intention was to initiate an era of peace and security, and it seemed clear that one precondition for such…

  By Leonard Fein

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  Looking for Sparks of Justice

  International justice has taken a pasting during the watch of this administration. In 2002, President Bush said, “We want the United Nations to be effective, and respectful, and successful. We want the resolutions of the world’s most important multilateral body to be enforced.” But this year he nominated John Bolton to be America’s representative to…

  By Kathleen Peratis May 6, 2005 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  That War, 60 Years Later

  The leaders of more than 50 nations representing some half the global community, including virtually every country in Europe as well as Japan, China, the United States, Canada and Israel, will gather in Moscow next week to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nazi surrender that ended World War II in Europe. The May 9…

  May 6, 2005 | 3 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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  Sharansky Bows Out

  The resignation of Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs, Natan Sharansky, should be an occasion for at least some kind of disturbance in the Israel-Diaspora relationship. That it passed without a ripple says much about the meaning of the Israeli post and of Sharansky’s own agenda on the job. The title of Diaspora affairs minister was…

  May 6, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  When Risk-taking Becomes a Victim

  Next week, the German people will inaugurate a Holocaust memorial of undulating concrete steles on five acres of prime Berlin real estate, just a stone’s throw from Hitler’s bunker. Perhaps it is time, then, for we Jews to also reevaluate our world view vis á vis the Holocaust. Yes, one third of our people were…

  By Joseph Hanania May 6, 2005 | 4 min read
• Letters

  May 6, 2005

  On Armenian Genocide Opinion writers Christine Thomassian and Shabtai Gold take Israel to task for not taking a stand on the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 by Turkey (“Who Remembers the Armenians?” April 29). Why pick on Israel? How many nations have officially condemned Turkey for that massacre? Isn’t it being a trifle…

  May 6, 2005 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Auschwitz is much more than just a part of me — it is all of me. The same holds true for each and every survivor. As Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated this year on May 6, 60 years after the liberation of the camps, not too many of us are still alive. None of us…

  By Roman Kent May 6, 2005 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Why This Week Shouldn’t Be Different From Others

  Last Saturday night, American Jews, their friends and their families sat down to the most widely observed tradition in our community, the Passover Seder. Like most rabbis, I am always happy to see people engaged with Jewish practice. But unless the practices and rituals that mark the celebrations and sacred moments of the collective calendar…

  By Rabbi Brad Hirschfield Apr 29, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Who Remembers the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler was confident that the world would remain indifferent to the plight of the Jewish people he was planning to exterminate. After all, he reportedly told Nazi commanders before the outbreak of World War II, who remembers the Armenians? The answer to Hitler’s rhetorical question remained much the same as the 90th anniversary of…

  By Christine Thomassian and Shabtai Gold Apr 29, 2005 | 3 min read
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  Social Research: Out From Under the Organizational Umbrella

  Jewish social research, to judge by a series of recent developments, is shifting its base from the organizational world to the academy. Earlier this month, Michael Steinhardt, chairman of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, donated $12 million to establish the Steinhardt Social Research Institute at Brandeis University. The gift forms the endowment for the institute, whose…

  By Bethamie Horowitz Apr 29, 2005 | 4 min read
• Letters

  April 29, 2005

  Review Lacks Context Of Ethiopians’ Rescue Arts & Culture writer Amir Shaviv ends his April 1 review of Steve Spector’s meticulously researched book on Operation Solomon by attacking the activists who put the issue of rescuing Ethiopian Jews on the agenda of world Jewry, and who put their own lives at risk to get the…

  Apr 29, 2005 | 5 min read