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  The Price Of U.S. Power

  Now comes the estimable Shimon Peres, Nobel peace laureate, erstwhile prime minister of the Third Jewish Commonwealth and principal developer of the intimate relationship between Israel and France during the 1950s — when France was Israel’s critical source of arms — and proposes that India replace France on the United Nations Security Council. In effect,…

  By Leonard Fein

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  You’re Right Too

  The leadership of Reform Judaism was right to bring its resolution on settlements and Palestinian statehood before the Jewish Council for Public Affairs at the council’s annual meeting this week in Baltimore. And the council was right to reject the Reform text. The Reform leaders were right because raising the topic was a courageous, principled…

  Feb 28, 2003 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  We Couldn’t Make This Up

  Dedicated readers of E.J. Kessler’s presidential campaign coverage in the Forward will hardly be surprised to learn that the latest entry into the Democratic presidential field, Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, has adopted a kosher vegan diet in deference to the religious practices of his long-time “best friend,” Cleveland labor lawyer Yelena Boxer. Bemused, perhaps,…

  Feb 28, 2003 | 2 min read

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• Dan Perry Israel’s new gift to the far right could help end the Gaza war

  

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  Dawdling Diplomacy Emboldens Terrorists

  When confronted by terrorism, action trumps inaction. So runs the conceptual underpinning of President Bush’s case for military pre-emption. Despite such tough rhetoric, America’s dawdling diplomacy regarding the liberation of Iraq makes it seem as though the president has failed to heed his own rule of statecraft. Nearly half a year has passed since Bush…

  By Ron Rubin Feb 28, 2003 | 3 min read
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  America Severs Its Abrahamic Ties, One ‘Small, Good Thing’ at a Time

  The writer Raymond Carver once penned a short story with a distinctly minimalist yet memorable title: “A Small, Good Thing.” It’s about a boy who dies in a hospital of “complications,” and whose parents are comforted by a friendly baker who gives them warm rolls — food being a “small, good thing” that makes us…

  By David Klinghoffer Feb 28, 2003 | 3 min read
• Letters

  February 28, 2003

  Leftist Rabbi Denied Podium Because of Ego Once again, Rabbi Michael Lerner has made headlines with his self-aggrandizing egoism, and the Forward fell for it lock, stock and barrel (“Leftist Rabbi Claims He’s Too Pro-Israel for Anti-War Group,” February 14). While it is true that one of the anti-war groups, International Answer, is flagrantly anti-Zionist…

  Feb 28, 2003 | 5 min read
• Opinion

  Prime Minister Sharon and the Belgian Tool of Law

  A central message of Jewish history is that justice, true justice, must be sought. The most enduring image of Israel’s great King Solomon was not as a warrior, a conqueror, a lover or a builder. The picture most of us first think of is his message of justice and the rule of logic and law….

  By Arthur Lenk Feb 28, 2003 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Trust Bush To Trust Congress

  Just who is George W. Bush? Is he “Top Gun,” as Newsweek recently crowned him, or “The Right Man,” as David Frum argues in his book, a master of strategy besting Democrats and Iraqis with ease? Is he the “deliberate, patient” visionary Bob Woodward depicts in “Bush at War,” a leader so clever, so engaged,…

  By Gil Troy Feb 21, 2003 | 4 min read
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  Back to the Fight

  In deciding to join the fight against the Bush administration’s proposed “reforms” to Medicaid and Medicare, United Jewish Communities and its network of local Jewish charitable federations have taken an important step. What’s at stake is not just the integrity of the nation’s safety net for the poor and the aging, which the administration seems…

  Feb 21, 2003 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  A Marijuana Crusader Defends His Healing Mission

  There is no doubt among knowledgeable physicians and researchers that marijuana is a medicine. It has proven anti-spasmodic, analgesic and anti-nausea properties, and has an incredible safety record. There are no recorded deaths from its use and overindulgence results in drowsiness and a sound sleep. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where I live, we…

  By Ed Rosenthal Feb 21, 2003 | 4 min read
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  The Holocaust Denier Who Would Be Yasser Arafat’s Prime Minister

  While European Union officials praised Yasser Arafat’s decision to appoint his first-ever prime minister, historians of the Holocaust were wincing at the thought that a leading candidate for the job is the author of a book questioning whether the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews. The candidate is Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, Arafat’s…

  By Rafael Medoff Feb 21, 2003 | 4 min read