Opinion

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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…

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• Opinion

  Squandered

  Last Saturday, the world witnessed what was probably the largest mass protest in modern history. Between 6 million and 10 million people turned out on the streets of some 600 cities in 60 countries around the globe, united by a single, passionate plea: that President Bush not plunge the world into war. Watching the protests…

  Feb 21, 2003 | 4 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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• Alyssa Katz Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

  

• Rob Eshman Liberal Zionists are under attack. A new book proves their work has never been more important

  

• Dan Perry Israel’s most dangerous war is with itself

  

• Emily Tamkin American Jews have a Hasan Piker problem. Solving it is going to hurt

  

• Jay Michaelson Epstein and Iran are an antisemitism mega-crisis. Here’s what Jewish organizations should do about it. 

  

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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
• Letters

  February 21, 2003

  Masorti Funds Overdue Those of us who have been involved with the Masorti movement have long been frustrated by the lack of support from the Conservative movement as a whole in the United States for our brothers and sisters in Israel (“Conservatives Ask Rabbis To Bail Out Their Israeli Arm,” February 7). The recent decision…

  Feb 21, 2003 | 6 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
• Opinion

  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
• Opinion

  Who’s Afraid Of the Big, Bad Israel Debate?

  Earlier this month a Torah commentary that I wrote for the Jewish Theological Seminary’s weekly student newsletter was rejected on the grounds that it included a critique of Israeli government policies. The decision by a member of the administration not to print the Torah commentary prompted the resignation of the student editor of the publication,…

  By Jill Jacobs Feb 21, 2003 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  A Homeless Babushka’s Shopping Cart

  I’ve never spoken to homeless people. They frighten me. Once, while walking out of a Starbucks in SoHo carrying my coffee, a wild-looking man walked over and began screaming. I ran away as I watched him lunge at me. I had no confidence that onlookers would help me out, and felt lucky my body remembered…

  By Roseline Glazer Feb 21, 2003 | 3 min read
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  For Aging Survivors, a Prescription for Disaster

  Somewhere in hell, Hitler, Eichmann and their cohorts must be laughing. While elderly Holocaust survivors cannot afford proper medical treatment and are forced to subsist on the edge of poverty, the German government provides full healthcare and generous pensions to its World War II veterans. It is utterly obscene that former Nazi soldiers are living…

  By Menachem Z. Rosensaft Jan 31, 2003 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Continental Iraq Divide

  It is exceedingly difficult to know what to make of and how to react to European misgivings about the American approach to Iraq. Germany and France, dismissed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as history, have made clear their opposition to Washington’s insistence on regime change in Iraq and the Bush administration’s readiness to act…

  By Leonard Fein Jan 31, 2003 | 4 min read