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  When Unemployment Doesn’t Work

  As the election-year debate proceeds over what policies can best promote the creation of new jobs, there remains a simple, inexpensive step the federal government can take right now to help many of the people hit hardest by the poor job market. That step, endorsed by public officials from Senator Hillary Clinton to the chairman…

  By Isaac Shapiro and John Springer

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  A Scheduling Conflict

  The temptation is to write about the small things, the odds and ends of daily life that describe what it is like to be in Israel these days — better than all the momentous debates and decisions that are very much, and appropriately so, in the news around the world. The first two weeks of…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 30, 2004 | 4 min read
• Letters

  April 30, 2004

  Progressive Union Aims To Open Student Talks The April 16 article on the lack of open debate on campus is a crucial reminder of the need for support of left-leaning Jewish students who wish to voice their opinions about Israel on campus (“Stifled Discussion Dampens Student Advocacy Efforts”). To address this need, several progressive Zionist…

  Apr 30, 2004 | 5 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman I have the answer to Jon Stewart’s toughest question about Israel

  

• Nora Berman ‘Eddington’ is full of conspiracy theories but it’s not about Jews. Or is it?

  

• Dan Perry Recognizing a Palestinian state is a great way to doom Palestinians

  

• Emily Tamkin Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear

  

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  Israel and the Swiss Banks

  With Israel facing unprecedented diplomatic isolation, and with antisemitic rhetoric and imagery surging to dangerous levels around the world, Jerusalem could not have picked a worse time to pick a fight with a Brooklyn federal court over its share of the $1.25 billion settlement between Holocaust survivors and Swiss banks. The Swiss bank restitution fund…

  Apr 30, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Message From the Mall

  Last week’s Washington rally for women’s reproductive choice wasn’t merely one of the largest demonstrations in American history. It was one of the largest gatherings of American Jews in recent years. Based on numbers provided by participating Jewish organizations, impressions from participants and inquiries with organizers around the country, it seems clear that Jewish march-goers…

  Apr 30, 2004 | < 1 min read
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  The Dumb of All Fears

  Terrorism is the national obsession du jour, and its costs are high and rising rapidly. Our fears of terrorism are real and justified, but if we allow ourselves to be obsessed with them, we will inevitably do stupid things that will likely make matters worse, not better. Next up for scrutiny through a terrorism-obsessed lens…

  By Kathleen Peratis Apr 30, 2004 | 3 min read
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  With Liberty and Social Justice for All

  From the stage, looking out at a rainbow of bobbing placards, the energy and commitment of the crowd massing on the national mall in Washington, D.C. was palpable. The April 25 March for Women’s Lives was one of the biggest demonstrations in American history. And whether you agree with press estimates of 800,000 marchers or…

  By Marsha Atkind Apr 30, 2004 | 3 min read
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  Racing To Rescue Shoah Evidence

  That the Holocaust was one of history’s most well-documented crimes is well-known. But few people know just how much documentation — “evidence” of the crime — remains yet to be identified. Finding these original materials, preserving them and making them available for research is fundamental to the mission of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum….

  By Sara Bloomfield Apr 30, 2004 | 3 min read
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  Freed From Shackles of the Past, Europe Forges a Unified Future

  This weekend, much of Central and Eastern Europe will be celebrating as my country of Latvia and nine other new member-states officially join the European Union. Last month, five of those states — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia — also joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. For many in Central and Eastern Europe, membership…

  By Nils Muiznieks Apr 30, 2004 | 4 min read
• Letters

  April 23, 2004

  Reports on Genocide Will Engender Action The Forward published an eye-opening and crucially important article and an accompanying editorial in the April 16 issue about the ethnic cleansing campaigns in Rwanda 10 years ago and the one currently going on in Darfur, Sudan today (“Groups Question Own Inaction on African Killings”; “Genocide and Conscience”). We…

  Apr 23, 2004 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Kristol Clear About War

  Patrick Buchanan and other likeminded commentators have repeatedly tried to direct the public’s attention to the fact that, in the Iraq conflict, some of the leading pro-war advocates in the conservative movement have Jewish surnames. There’s Wolfowitz, Perle and Feith, not to mention Kristol, Frum and Weinstein. The presumption is that President Bush was led…

  By David Klinghoffer Apr 23, 2004 | 3 min read