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  Unsportsmanlike Conduct: FIFA Ignores Its Rules In Israeli-Palestinian Soccer Dispute

  The worlds of politics and football (soccer) clashed again. This time, the location was the Bahraini capital, Manama. The two sides of the conflict were the Palestinian Football Federation and the Israeli Football Federation. At stake in the conflict was a resolution submitted by the Palestinian federation demanding that six Israeli clubs based in exclusive…

  By Daoud Kuttab

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  Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Saudi Arabia Still Hostile To Israel

  Before visiting Jerusalem in several days, President Trump will stop in Saudi Arabia for meetings with Islamic leaders to discuss joint efforts against extremism. He may wish to start with Saudi Arabia’s own mixed record on incitement against Israel and the Jewish people. Breathless observers have recently declared that Saudi Arabia and Israel are becoming…

  By David Daoud and David Andrew Weinberg May 15, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Diplomatic Turn: How The Six-Day War Shaped My Diplomatic Career

  As the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War approaches, it is natural to think about how the war affected me. I was finishing up my freshman year at the University of California, Los Angeles. Like many of my generation, I opposed the Vietnam War. But I was not a pacifist; I thought that we…

  By Dennis Ross May 15, 2017 | 2 min read

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  Think Of Israel As A Joint Venture With Palestinians As Minority Shareholders

  We Israelis recently celebrated our country’s 69th birthday. I have lived in Israel for 37 of those birthdays, since making aliyah from the United States in 1980. I have worked extensively in economic development with Jews and Arabs in Israel. The key to fostering sound Jewish-Arab relations and a vibrant country is to look at…

  By Sarah Kreimer May 15, 2017 | 3 min read
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  How Tasting Bacon On Pizza Changed This Ex-Hasid For Life

  This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Kosher kosher kosher! That refrain lingered in my ears loudly, even years after I left the tight-knit Hasidic community I grew up in. The necessity of keeping kosher was instilled in me in the most powerful way from a very young age. It wasn’t enough if the…

  May 14, 2017 | 3 min read
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  EXCLUSIVE: Sheryl Sandberg Speaks Out On Judaism — And Grieving

  Sheryl Sandberg may be the most famous widow in America right now. Before her husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly two years ago, she was already famous as the second-in-command of Facebook, the best-selling author of “Lean In” and a globe-trotting speaker and influencer — who did all this while raising two children in an equitable…

  By Jane Eisner May 14, 2017 | 6 min read
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  Al Franken Thinks This Republican Senator Will Stand Up To Trump

  Following President Trump’s public kneecapping of James Comey and his subsequent tweeted threat that the ousted FBI director “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations,” many Washington insiders are likening the growing scandal to Watergate faster than you can say Archibald Cox. The Atlantic’s James Fallows, for instance, argued Comey’s firing is…

  By David Wallis May 13, 2017 | 2 min read
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  Will It Take Another 9/11 For Us To Treat Each Other Decently Again?

  For weeks after September 11, 2001, police cordoned off the West Side of Manhattan below 14th Street. You could bypass the barricades only if you lived in the area, as I do, or if you worked as a first responder or as a reporter. At a time when a giant plume of dark, acrid-smelling smoke…

  By David Wallis May 13, 2017 | 4 min read
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  How A Rock-Climbing Harness Is Like A Set of Tefillin

  This article was first published in The Forward on May 21, 1999. The terrain reminded me of the Negev, especially as I gazed out over it from high above the desert floor: coarse sand, prickly shrubs, sandstone cliffs. A rope was the only thing that protected me from injury or death. I was leading a…

  By Niles Goldstein May 12, 2017 | 4 min read
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  Donald Trump, Read The Bible: You Are Not Above The Law

  No, the Tuesday Afternoon Massacre is not quite the same as the Saturday Night Massacre. Comey-gate isn’t Watergate. Donald Trump isn’t Richard Nixon. And America is not suddenly embroiled in a constitutional crisis. So far, thank goodness, the Constitution seems to be okay. But the stunning dismissal of FBI Director James Comey should send chills…

  By Jane Eisner May 12, 2017 | 3 min read
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  Europe Dodges A Bullet, But Far Right Dangers Remain

  The outpouring of international relief over the French far right failing to seize the presidency says a lot about the febrile nature of modern Western politics. Europe has dodged a bullet, and the victory of Emmanuel Macron is, in the broader sense at least, a sign of the strength of the liberal status quo. It’s…

  By Peter Apps (Reuters) May 12, 2017 | 4 min read