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  Mitzna, Laboring Against the Odds

  For a brief moment, in the wake of the revelations regarding vote-buying in the Likud Party primary, Prime Minister Sharon’s party looked to be heading for free-fall. Almost overnight, it lost six or seven seats from its high a week earlier. But of course the loss was only in the polls; the elections are still…

  By Leonard Fein

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  The Tin Badge

  After a year of bold talk about rogue states, weapons of mass destruction and America’s superpower duties, it seems the Bush administration may have painted itself into a corner. That global policeman’s shield is starting to look like little more than a tin badge. It was just last September that the administration, in a sweeping…

  Jan 3, 2003 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  The Tin Badge II

  The downward spiral of the West Bank and Gaza into ungovernable chaos, as reported by our Ori Nir on Page 1, serves as a reminder that America doesn’t have a monopoly on populist bluster and unintended consequences. By insisting on remaining in control of the territories it captured in 1967, whether because it hasn’t found…

  Jan 3, 2003 | 2 min read

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• Nora Berman Is Netflix’s new show the most Jewish cartoon ever?

  

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

  

• Emily Tamkin Entering motherhood — and an obsession with the works of an Italian Jewish literary hero

  

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  From Babylon To Beersheva, By Way of Berkeley

  Weeks after a friend was nearly shot boarding a plane to Israel from Los Angeles last July, days after a suicide bomber blew up scores of students at the Hebrew University cafeteria in Jerusalem, amidst a wave of terrorist attacks across the Jewish state and with Israel and Iraq on the brink of war, I…

  By Loolwa Khazzoom Jan 3, 2003 | 3 min read
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  Campus Zionism and the Changing Jewish Student

  American college campuses have become one of the most watched and embattled fronts in Israel’s advocacy wars. While there is a sense among many observers that things on campus are not as bad as some have been depicting them to be, the sophistication that the Jewish community brings to its Israel advocacy on campuses must…

  By Jay Tcath and Paul Saiger Jan 3, 2003 | 3 min read
• Letters

  January 3, 2003

  As Senator or President, Lieberman’s Pro-Israel How sad that after all of the accomplishments and gains that American Jews have made during the last 50 years without hiding their religion, there are those who are still insecure about a presidential candidate such as Senator Joseph Lieberman who is proud of his faith — and who…

  Jan 3, 2003 | 5 min read
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  Sunday Afternoon at the Three Tomatoes With Howard Dean

  In New Hampshire, it’s the season. Snow in the mountains. Ice on the roads. Skiers on the lifts. Presidential candidates trying to romance and recruit the political people and activists that can still make the difference in New Hampshire. The battle’s begun. Not the war to topple Saddam Hussein, but the bloodless political conflict between…

  By Roy Morrison Jan 3, 2003 | 3 min read
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  Nelson’s Life and Limb

  Word around the federal courthouse in Brooklyn is that Lemrick Nelson is going to appeal his conviction in the killing of Yankel Rosenbaum on the basis of double jeopardy. He will apparently contend that to try him on federal criminal charges after his acquittal on state murder charges violates the provision of the Constitution —…

  Feb 14, 1997 | 3 min read
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  Nelson’s Jeopardy

  It’s going to be illuminating to see how the civil rights community reacts to one of the defenses Lemrick Nelson is likely to raise against charges that he violated the civil right of Yankel Rosenbaum in killing him during the Crown Heights riot. The lawyer who won acquittal of Mr. Nelson on the state charges,…

  Aug 19, 1994 | 2 min read