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• Opinion

  To Bolster Muslim Moderates, Add Democracy and Stir

  Hadi Ali is not the stereotypical face of political Islam. His beard is cropped close to his face. He wears sweater vests instead of clerical robes. His formal education is in physics, not theology. All in all, he looks more like a professor of literature at a small Midwestern college than the No. 2 official…

  By Vance Serchuk

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• Letters

  February 13, 2004

  Poll Presents Geneva In a Misleading Light In her opinion article Debra DeLee, president of Americans for Peace Now, reports that 50% of American Jews polled by Peace Now said they were more likely to support the Geneva Understandings (the Israeli far left’s proposal for a full-scale Israeli territorial surrender and creation of a Palestinian…

  Feb 13, 2004 | 5 min read
• Letters

  February 6, 2004

  A Boon to Students And to the Academy Jacob Neusner is right in his opinion article to express concern that Judaic studies programs will become dominated by the narrow interests of the organized Jewish community (“A Threat to the Academy,” January 30). However, we should not let these concerns obscure the ways in which Judaic…

  Feb 6, 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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  What Joe Wrought

  Senator Joe Lieberman’s departure from the presidential contest was the right thing to do, given his inability to gain ground with the voters. But it leaves undone some of the big tasks that Lieberman took on when he joined the race. For his campaign was more than just a run for office. It was a…

  Feb 6, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Far Shore

  The biblical portion read in synagogues this Saturday, Beshalach, recounts one of the most sublime moments in human memory, the Israelites’ flight from slavery across the Red Sea and the drowning of Pharaoh’s pursuing army. In a soaring moment of wonder and gratitude, Moses gathers the Israelites on the far shore and sings a song…

  Feb 6, 2004 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  A Silent Majority for Peace

  Campaign season is here, and it’s important for candidates to remember that the loudest voices in communities don’t always reflect the thinking of the people they claim to represent. Such is currently the case with the American Jewish community. Contrary to what some may think, American Jews strongly favor political candidates who back active U.S….

  By Debra Delee Feb 6, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Putting Politics First And Numbers Second

  The president’s budget is both a political statement and an accounting document. It sets out the White House’s priorities and agenda and tells us what they will cost. Unfortunately, while the Bush 2005 budget sent to Congress this week fully succeeds at telling us where the president wants to go, it fails just as completely…

  By Stanley Collender Feb 6, 2004 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Looking Beyond Labels

  The most common way to speak about American Jews is to use the denominational brand names — Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, etc. But the usefulness of these terms is increasingly debatable, as suggested by analysis of recently released data from the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01. The proportion of American Jews who said they were “Just…

  By Bethamie Horowitz Feb 6, 2004 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  An Urgent Need for Israel Studies

  Across the country, college students are returning to campus from their winter breaks. Many, however, will be returning to classrooms where Israel is often a target of hostility and too seldom a subject of fair-minded academic consideration. The manner in which Israel and the Middle East are taught about in the nation’s university classrooms has…

  By Michael C. Kotzin Jan 30, 2004 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  A Threat to the Academy

  It has been 40 years since universities began to make faculty appointments in Jewish subjects in their departments of religious studies, history, literature and language. In the decades that followed, the field of Jewish studies has flourished on campus. The latest testament to this fact is the recently released finding by the National Jewish Population…

  By Jacob Neusner Jan 30, 2004 | 3 min read
• Letters

  Letter January 30, 2004

  Standing By Critique of Grama Book Reportage I stand by my claim that the Forward’s December 19, 2003 reportage of the main themes of Rabbi Saadya Grama’s book “Romemut Yisrael Ufarashat Hagalut” was “grossly inaccurate and misleading, perhaps libelously so,” but I am touched by Forward editor J.J. Goldberg’s description of our correspondence on the…

  Jan 30, 2004 | 5 min read