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Reporter Who Broke Alberto Nisman Story Flees
The journalist who first reported the death of Argentinian special prosecutor Alberto Nisman last Sunday has now fled the country, saying he feared for his life. This is according to reports on Israel’s Ynetnews (English) and Walla (Hebrew) news sites, based on tweets on the online Argentinian Journalists’ Forum. The journalist, Damian Pachter of the…
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Opinion I Don’t Want To Be Jewish Anymore
The Seesaw is a new kind of advice column in which a broad range of columnists will address the real life issues faced by interfaith couples and families. Read the discussion and vote below for what you think is the best response to this particular quandary. You can email your own questions, which will remain…
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Opinion After Abdullah: What’s Next for Saudi Arabia?
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who died January 23 at age 90, leaves behind a legacy of monumental proportions for his kingdom, the region and the global economy. For that reason, his death leaves a cloud of uncertainty over all three realms. He leaves the country in the hands of an elderly successor, his half-brother…
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Opinion How King Abdullah Set Stage for Saudi Reforms — and Opening to Israel
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud passed away on January 22 leaving a legacy of cautious, gradual reform in his own country and a key strategic relationship with the United States that, during his reign, at times was stretched almost to the breaking point. He also left his mark on the strategic landscape…
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Opinion ‘We Should Not Give Up Making Our Countries Better’
When Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters were attacked, we spent hour after hour listening to the news, checking the Internet, calling our loved ones to share our feelings and sense of loss for the disconcerting assault to two of the most crucial European values: the sanctity of life and the freedom of expression. In Italy, the situation…
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Opinion 4 Theories for Alberto Nisman’s Death
Demonstrators protest outside the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires Theories abound about the suspicious death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentina anti-terror prosecutor who was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment on January 18. Nisman, who was Jewish, was set to testify the day after his death about the 1994 terrorist attack at the…
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Opinion The New York Times and its Israel Bias
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not confined to the battlefield. It is also waged in the media, nowhere more prominently than in The New York Times. In “The Conflict and the Coverage,” a November column she “never wanted to write,” Margaret Sullivan, Times Public Editor, addressed “hundreds of emails from readers on both sides of the…
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Opinion Want To Stop Terror Attacks? Cover Up!
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman “Short clothing = shortened life.” That’s a message currently winding its way through Jerusalem’s streets, thanks to a new ultra-Orthodox modesty campaign. The ad, plastered across 20 Egged buses, has been sparking social media protests among secular Israelis who resent being told how to dress. They’re saying that it’s hypocritical of…
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Opinion ‘I Suddenly Find Myself Feeling Powerless’
‘For once they are not targeting Jews.” This was the strange thought that came to my mind a few minutes after I started reading about the horrific attack at Charlie Hebdo, less than a mile from where I live. But I was wrong. I should have remembered that since the Toulouse attack in 2012 and…
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Opinion Let’s Replace Blasphemy Laws With a Little Common Respect
We in the liberal, pluralistic West are pretty smug about distancing ourselves from what appears to have motivated a couple of Muslim terrorists to massacre French cartoonists: responding to blasphemy. We don’t intuitively comprehend what is so terrible about poking fun at the Prophet Muhammad because ridiculing and challenging religious symbols is an accepted form…
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Opinion #JeSuisCouteau Trending After Tel Aviv Attack
This might just be the world’s worst hashtag — ever. Hours after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 12 people on board a Tel Aviv bus, extremists took to social media to praise his actions with #JeSuisCouteau, which is French for “I am the knife.” The hashtag, a clear play on the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag used around the world…
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