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  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

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• Opinion

  New Dread, New Promise

  It seems a lifetime ago, but it was only four or five years back that Israel’s independence day was marked by Jewish communities around America as a high point, a time to celebrate the transformative role of Jewish statehood in the lives and identities of Jews everywhere. This year the celebrations — if that’s the…

  Apr 23, 2004 | 3 min read
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  A Purge in Pennsylvania

  Strange are the ways of zealots. Iraq is in flames, global terrorism is on the rise, President Bush’s 9/11 alibi is in tatters, and yet one of the greatest threats to Bush’s hold on power comes at the moment from — of all things — a Republican congressman who is one of the president’s most…

  Apr 23, 2004 | 2 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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  Twilight of the American Idol

  I had a bad dream. It was really creepy. I still shudder when I think about it. I was looking forward to watching the final eight contestants compete on “American Idol” last week. As it is for millions of other good folk of this nation, the televised talent show is a staple of my Tuesday…

  By Jill Rachel Jacobs Apr 23, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Blinded by the Light Unto the Nations

  In the last month, the Israeli military has assassinated the two top leaders of Hamas while Prime Minister Sharon has been pushing for Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza. Many of us watching from the American Jewish sidelines have alternated between two feelings: Dreading that worse yet may result from these killings and the retaliatory rage they…

  By Bethamie Horowitz Apr 23, 2004 | 4 min read
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  While the Jewish Community Watches, Survivors Suffer

  Throughout the last half century, as Jewish communities have raised large sums of money for various philanthropic causes, I cannot remember a single organization that has not used the theme of Holocaust survivors as a means of raising funds. We did not mind because the funds raised were for good causes. We believed that if…

  By Roman Kent Apr 23, 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
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  Home Is Where the Heart Isn’t

  Estelle N’Gambi came to New York from Zambia four years ago to take a position as a live-in nanny with a family in Yonkers. She labored 18 hours a day, seven days a week, earning only $250 a month — and she had to sleep on the floor. N’Gambi’s story is an all too familiar…

  By Alisa Solomon Apr 16, 2004 | 4 min read
• Letters

  April 16, 2004

  Diatribe Against Y.U. Robs Students’ Night Amid reporting on the chaos engendered by Howard Jonas’ comments at the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah annual dinner, the Forward neglected to focus on the real celebration of the evening: a group of six young men who have committed themselves to serve the Jewish community selflessly (“Philanthropist Attacks University for…

  Apr 16, 2004 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Between an Ax And a Scalpel

  There’s a reason the Left (or the liberals or the progressives, or whatever nom de guerre you prefer) seems so bereft of a positive agenda. The Right, by and large, knows precisely what it seeks to accomplish. It seeks to dismantle government. It wants to privatize medical care, and social security, and our prisons, and…

  By Leonard Fein Apr 16, 2004 | 4 min read
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  Bush and the Terrorists

  President Bush got at least one thing dead-right at the Tuesday night press conference where he attempted to defend his floundering counterterrorism policy. The terrorists, the president said, “can be right one time. We got to be right 100% of the time in order to protect the country.” What was missing from Bush’s remarks was…

  Apr 16, 2004 | 3 min read