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Letters
April 4, 2003
Technion Taps Women’s Leadership Potential There are at least six and very likely several more than the five organizations with women at the helm mentioned by opinion writer Shifra Bronznick in her analysis of women’s advancement in American Jewish organizations (“Unleashing Women’s Leadership Potential,” March 21). The American Technion Society, the leading American organization raising…
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Opinion ‘Soprano’ Zionism
My grandmother used to sigh, “Shver tsu zayn a yid” — it’s tough to be a Jew. These days, though, it’s even tougher to be a Zionist. It is an act of triple-chutzpah. Diaspora Zionists risk the opprobrium of anti-Zionists who libel Zionism as racism, of Israelis like writer A.B. Yehoshua who uses crude sexual…
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Opinion Naming the Plague
It’s possible, just possible, that there’s nothing more than coincidence behind the shocking increase in antisemitic incidents in various parts of the world during the last year. The surge may be entirely unconnected to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the escalating American war on Islamic extremism that has followed. It’s possible, but…
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Opinion The Debate Debate
As America’s generals scramble to regroup for a battle more bloody than any envisioned and Republicans in Washington agonize over what went wrong and why, the American public is descending into a more basic and ugly debate over the very legitimacy of debating. The signs are everywhere. In New Mexico, four schoolteachers have been suspended…
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Opinion How To Make Yeshiva Day School Tuition Affordable
The American Orthodox Jewish community has enjoyed decades of freedom, strength, growth and self-confidence unprecedented in the history of the Diaspora. We are the freest Jews in virtually every respect in at least the last 2,500 years. There is a lot to celebrate, starting with the quality and availability of Jewish education. The number of…
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Opinion ‘Road Map’ to Peace …
In recent days, groups of pro-Israel activists have begun voicing alarm, mostly in private, over the prospect that the “road map,” the plan backed by the Bush administration for addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is nearing implementation. This alarm, if translated into active efforts to delay or derail the road map, would be misguided and ultimately…
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Opinion ‘Road Map’ to Peace …
I am a confirmed Israeli liberal. I believe there should be a Palestinian state on virtually all the land occupied by Israel since 1967. I feel strongly that the vast majority of the settlements should be dismantled. Doubtful that the Palestinians and us are capable, on our own accord, of reaching a peace agreement, I…
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Opinion Shame on Envious Anti-Americanism
‘Aman,” the Talmud teaches us, “envies everyone but his son and his student.” In all the talk surrounding the war in Iraq, the pervasiveness of envy and a related emotion, shame, has gotten far less attention than it deserves. We may wish to think that leaders and nations are driven by visions of the future,…
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Letters March 28, 2003
Bush, Not Doves, Has Betrayed ‘Our Side’ I disagree with the notion that there are, when push comes to shove, only two sides to the current conflict between the United States and Iraq, and that “George Bush is leading our side” (“Our Side,” March 21). I deplore the policies of Saddam Hussein. However, I do…
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Opinion How To Rule But Not Lead
As nearly as I can recall, the last war-related protest in which I participated — in fact, helped organize — was a protest in favor of American intervention in Bosnia. The year was 1993, just a decade ago. Europe then as now was passive, unwilling to put an end to the carnage. And so were…
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Opinion The New Powell Doctrine
Regardless of how the war with Iraq unfolds, the six-month American dalliance with the United Nations over the future of Saddam Hussein represents one of this country’s main post-Cold War diplomatic defeats. What makes this disaster even more aggravating is that the wounds were self-inflicted and avoidable. Future historians will blame this fumbling exercise in…
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