Opinion

• Opinion

  How Not To Fight Terror

  The two Palestinians who blew themselves up in downtown Tel Aviv last Sunday, killing 22 innocent victims and wounding more than 100, were identified by their handlers this week as young men from the West Bank city of Nablus, Burak Hilsa and Samar A-Nuri. According to a statement from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the…

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  Don’t Cut Outreach

  The Union of American Hebrew Congregations owes everyone a better explanation than the one it offered for its decision to lay off its corps of regional outreach directors. The Reform union says the elimination of the coordinators, who work with synagogues and individuals to bring interfaith families into Judaism, was just one of many painful…

  Jan 10, 2003 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  To the Poor and Needy

  There isn’t much that’s been left unsaid about President Bush’s new economic plan, a misbegotten mixture of giveaways to the rich and pittances to working families that barely addresses the economy’s pressing need for stimulus and jobs. Last Tuesday, the day that the president unveiled his $674 billion plan in a speech in Chicago, the…

  Jan 10, 2003 | < 1 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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  Singling Out Israel Doesn’t Evidence a Double Standard

  With much of the world singling out Israel for criticism — and ignoring some pretty vile abuses elsewhere in the Middle East — it is easy to buy into the argument that targeting the Jewish state alone for criticism is ipso facto illegitimate. After all, if a concern for human rights abuse alone does not…

  By Gideon Maltz Jan 10, 2003 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Selective Condemnation of Jewish State Is Antisemitic

  ‘When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews,” Martin Luther King once said. “In short, it is antisemitism.” But what about criticizing Israel? More specifically, what about singling out the Jewish state as a perpetrator of war crimes or as an egregious violator of human rights? Is this also antisemitism? Or is the claim of antisemitism…

  By Robert Horenstein Jan 10, 2003 | 3 min read
• Letters

  January 10, 2003

  Mamet’s Macho Love Of Israel Is Immature How nice that David Mamet has fallen in love with Israel in his middle age (“‘If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem’: The Power of Blunt Nostalgia,” December 27). I remember feeling the same way, except I was a teenager. Now, 30 years later, I see that the course I…

  Jan 10, 2003 | 5 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
• Opinion

  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 Jan 3, 2003 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  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
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  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
• Opinion

  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