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Sparks Fly as Bibi Draws Fire at Israel’s Top Security Conference
Fireworks erupted at Israel’s most prestigious annual security conference on Wednesday when two former security advisers to Benjamin Netanyahu clashed over the prime minister’s stewardship of the nation’s affairs. The rumpus broke out during a speech at the annual Herzliya Conference by Uzi Arad, longtime national security adviser to Netanyahu, former director of Israel’s national…
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Opinion After Orlando, an Open Letter to My Gay Jewish Son
Dear Nadav, The massacre in Orlando was a heartbreaking and horrific attack, one more in the senseless string of killings that have punctuated our lives. But as your father, it also struck another nerve, not just the one that says it could have been you in the Pulse club. Rather, it was the insidious way…
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Letters At B&H, We’re Negotiating in Good Faith With Our Workers
Ari Paul’s attack on B&H, a company built over the last 40 years on its stellar reputation for honesty and integrity, was completely misleading and based on so much bad information it’s difficult to know where to start. He and the Forward should have done a little more work before slandering our company. He quotes…
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Opinion Why Jewish Moms Are Celebrating With Hillary
(JTA) — It happened all at once and not to me alone. There was Hillary Clinton, in her June 7 victory speech, honoring her mother’s memory; saluting her daughter, Chelsea; paying tribute to herself for raising such a child, and claiming her party’s nomination as the “milestone” it is. “I really wish my mother could…
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Opinion Why Orlando Massacre Has America So Angry With Itself — Guns, Islam and Especially Homophobia
For all the rancor in our national discourse over the past decade, it’s hard to remember a moment so dominated by vitriol and mutual loathing as the aftermath of the Orlando shooting. It’s almost as though we’re angrier at each other than at the murderer. In part it’s the toxic impact of Donald Trump. But…
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Opinion Why We Shouldn’t Force Hasidic Jews To Offer Secular Education
“The middle of the road is for horses,” the famous Rebbe of Kotzk once said. Critics of the Orthodox Union and UJA-Federation seem to share that disapproval for those sitting out the battle over the Satmar school curriculum, according to a recent report in the Forward. Why have those organizations not come out vocally in…
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Opinion Praying to God Won’t Prevent the Next Orlando
On Sunday night my son Benjamin couldn’t sleep. It goes without saying then that I couldn’t sleep either. As I tried to comfort him, I watched the minutes and the hours tick by. Finding myself awake during the night, my mind always races, and as I held my son I kept thinking about the type…
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Opinion Forget Diplomacy. Both Netanyahu and Abbas Need Some Serious Therapy
I had a modest revelation about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as I left the White House after interviewing National Security Advisor Susan Rice. It may be time to send home the diplomats and bring in the therapists. My June 6 interview with Rice, arranged at her office’s request, was not bursting with news, but it…
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Opinion In a Back Alley of Tijuana
It was 1964 in Southern California. I was 23, in a committed relationship, and even though I was using birth control, I found myself pregnant. I had vowed I would never have an abortion. Not because of religious or moral issues but because a 15-year-old high school friend of mine had died from an illegal…
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Opinion In Brazil, Abortion Is Still Illegal
I never again had that feeling of total integration of conscience and body as at the moment it dawned on me I was pregnant. It was eerie: I found myself standing in front of the window of a very upscale baby shop, with my head turned, observing a man holding his child up in the…
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Opinion A Masked Man at a Farm Near Baltimore, Then a Happy Ending With Boxer Shorts
The dictionary defines regret as a sense of loss, disappointment or dissatisfaction. I do not regret my abortion, the illegal one I had shortly after my 20th birthday, seven years before Roe v. Wade became law. I didn’t regret my decision then, and I don’t regret it now. I do regret the humiliation of having…
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