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  An Island of Empowerment

  From the air, the many islands off the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand’s Trang Province look like Shangri-La: luxuriantly green, white beaches, aqua sea. Last week I visited the small village of Koh Muuk on one of them, Muuk Island. Early and misleading reports following the tsunami of December 26 — a date referred…

  By Kathleen Peratis

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  Democracy and Peace In the Middle East

  Those who have been wondering when the worldwide march of democracy would finally reach the Middle East got the beginnings of an answer this week. In a scene reminiscent of the velvet revolutions that swept Eastern Europe more than a decade ago, the people of Lebanon took to the streets last Monday to protest Syrian…

  Mar 4, 2005 | 4 min read
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  If It’s Saturday, This Must Be America

  Of the Ten Commandments, the Fourth — Sabbath observance — had until recently received less respect than any of the other nine, among Jews and Christians alike. One joker has called it “the Rodney Dangerfield of the Decalogue.” America, however, is due for a Sabbath revival, and there is evidence in the culture that one…

  By David Klinghoffer Mar 4, 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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  The Struggle To Reinvigorate The Zionist Ethos

  As the Israeli government moves to eliminate the Jewish presence in Gaza and in four settlements in northern Shomron, opponents of its plan would do well to keep things in perspective. The battle is not over homes and hothouses; it is over the hearts and minds of our brothers and sisters. Even if we lose…

  By Moshe Dann Mar 4, 2005 | 4 min read
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  When Academic Freedom Is Kicked Out of Class

  New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein should pay a visit to the City University of New York Graduate Center this week to see a telling and chillingly timely exhibit called “Activism and Repression: The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42,” which closes March 6. Contemplating this chronicle of shameful blacklists against City College…

  By Alisa Solomon Mar 4, 2005 | 3 min read
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  Discard the Outmoded Taboo Against ‘Evenhandedness’

  In responding to recent Republican ads that linked Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean to masked terrorists, Jewish Democratic leaders justifiably criticized gutter politics and cited pro-Israel statements from Dean. But they also should have refuted the assumption implicit in those ads — namely, that those who advocate that the United States not “take sides”…

  By Dan Fleshler Mar 4, 2005 | 4 min read
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  The ‘Availability’ Of Aptitude

  In 1873, Edward Clark, a Harvard physician, suggested that young women who engaged in “heavy mental activity” would wreck their reproductive system. “The results are monstrous brains and puny bodies… . The brain cannot take more than its share without injury to other organs.” What calls this to mind just now, obviously, is the flap…

  By Leonard Fein Feb 25, 2005 | 4 min read
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  Bush’s New Tone

  Beyond the specifics of what was said and done, there was an enormous symbolic importance in President Bush’s decision to visit Europe this week as the first major act of his second term. After presiding during his first term over a perilous fraying of the Atlantic alliance, Bush appears to have recognized the urgency of…

  Feb 25, 2005 | 3 min read
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  Same Old Same-old

  One of the oddest features of Middle East debate in this country is its near-total detachment from the realities of the Middle East itself. Whatever happens over there, the players here can be trusted to continue reading from the script they learned years ago. In reality, Israel votes to begin dismantling settlements and withdrawing from…

  Feb 25, 2005 | 2 min read
• Letters

  February 25, 2005

  David Irving Responds In her gripping February 14 opinion article, Deborah Lipstadt shows that one reason she did not speak for three months during the British High Court trial of my libel action against her — a reticence that has puzzled many observers hitherto — was evidently because she was asleep (“60 Years Later, Dresden…

  Feb 25, 2005 | 5 min read
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  Looking Beyond Israel’s Withdrawal From Gaza…

  The Book of Judges records the death of Samson in Gaza. Bound to the columns of a Philistine temple, Samson brought the house down on himself and its occupants, crying, “Let me die with the Philistines.” In recent days, Samsonian recklessness and despair have again resurfaced in Gaza. Meet Yigal Kaminetsky, rabbi of the Gush…

  By Lloyd Green Feb 25, 2005 | 3 min read