Opinion

• Opinion

  Abortion Ban Degrades And Devalues Women

  President Bush recently signed a ban on so-called “partial birth abortions” into law. Enactment of this legislation marks a great victory for the religious right, and such passage surely reflects — as many commentators have pointed out — how successful the proponents of the ban have been in their campaign to restrict the scope of…

  By David Ellenson

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• Opinion

  Back to School for Israel Advocacy

  Jewish sages have written that “any love which is offered without criticism is not true love.” Recently, however, Israel’s minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora affairs, Natan Sharansky, found himself subjected to stinging rebukes over a tough critique he penned in these pages analyzing the dismal state of Jewish campus activism in the United States (“Tour…

  By Jay Schottenstein and Ronald S. Lauder Nov 14, 2003 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Over the Top Protest Down Under

  Over the last month there has been an acrimonious public confrontation between the leadership of the Australian Jewish community and those who were once that community’s natural allies and closest friends — the political left, and more particularly, the Australian Labor Party. The issue was the decision by the Sydney Peace Foundation to award its…

  By Michael Danby Nov 14, 2003 | 4 min read

Columnists View All

• 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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• Letters

  November 14, 2003

  ‘Coleman Republicans’ Only in America could a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn go from being a long-haired war protestor at Hofstra University to law school at the University of Iowa; subsequently be named solicitor general in Minnesota under Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey, III, before winning election as the Democratic mayor of St. Paul, then…

  Nov 14, 2003 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Can’t Win, Can’t Afford To Lose

  Had President Bush delivered the same speech at the United Nations before the invasion of Iraq, and then turned to the international body to implement his vision, our world would be quite different today. As it is, we are stuck in Iraq: we cannot win, yet we cannot afford to lose. The president casts his…

  By Leonard Fein Nov 14, 2003 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Remembering Why We Give

  Admirers of Jewish philanthropy like to say that Jews are a generous community. It’s a flattering thought, and considering the vast sums we donate to a dizzying array of causes, it’s not far off the mark. But generosity isn’t really the point. Being generous means giving because you’re a nice sort. We give because we…

  Nov 14, 2003 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Don’t Let Them

  Eight years after the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, the unending debate over Jew-on-Jew violence has moved from the Holy Land to La La Land, in an absurd parody that only California could concoct. In the Hollywood version, the passions of the Middle East remain, but the bit about an extremist killing an Israeli leader is…

  Nov 14, 2003 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Build Coalitions of Decency To Fight Hatred

  A mere 10 years ago, we felt confident that antisemitism was no longer a significant threat. But we were wrong. Most of us have been exposed to more antisemitic discourse during the last two years than we have seen in our entire lives. We note with horror the monstrous canards that continue to circulate in…

  By Eric Yoffie Nov 14, 2003 | 4 min read
• Letters

  November 7, 2003

  Students Making Grade On Israel Advocacy I am a student at Rutgers University, and I am unhappy with the grade given by opinion writer Natan Sharansky to me and my fellow activists in our efforts to support Israel on campus (“Tour of U.S. Schools Reveals Why Zionism Is Flunking on Campus,” October 24). Hillel at…

  Nov 7, 2003 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  A People Dwelling Alone

  To the 100,000 or more people who gathered November 1 in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to mark the eighth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, there was perhaps some sense of urgency to the occasion. Just the day before, vandals had painted swastikas on the monument that marks the spot where Yigal Amir…

  By Leonard Fein Nov 7, 2003 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Point of Zionism

  Why do they hate us? The question has plagued us nonstop for the last two years, since this war against terrorism began. If we are at war, we must know against whom. If we hope to win, we must know what winning means and how to get there. Does winning mean ending terrorist attacks? Then…

  Nov 7, 2003 | 4 min read