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  Israel’s Dr. Dolittle Government Has Two Heads When It Comes to Peace

  Maybe it’s just coincidence, but there does seem to be an awful lot of talk lately about the possible demise of the Jewish state. Indeed, it feels as though it’s heating up just as Israel approaches its 65th birthday. Should we be reading something into the fact that 65 is the age of retirement? Is…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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  AIPAC’s Effort To Reach Out to Liberals Is Doomed to Failure

  News that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee wants to reach out more to Democrats and progressives inspires mixed emotions. On one hand, it’s good that the pre-eminent pro-Israeli lobbying organization is coming around to recognizing that liberals are assets to pro-Israel advocacy. But the way it’s going about building support for Israel among this…

  By Alan Elsner Apr 1, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Who Sugarcoated My Barton’s Haggadah?

  Passover this year came with a nasty jolt. It wasn’t the company, mostly cousins I rarely see and always enjoy. It certainly wasn’t the food, which was traditional and delicious enough to satisfy any expectations: gefilte fish, knaidlech, horseradish, charoseth, and the most tender brisket I’ve had since my mother died. It wasn’t the conversation,…

  By Judy Oppenheimer Apr 1, 2013 | 4 min read

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  As Yeshiva Child Sex Abuse Scandal Grows, Why Are We Afraid To Speak Out?

  We in the Orthodox Jewish community claim to value children deeply. We want to have children, and we pressure our own children to get married and have children, and yet, when it comes to really ensuring those children’s utmost protection from harm, somehow the silence is deafening. As a Yeshiva University alumnus and a psychotherapist…

  By Stacey Klein Mar 31, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Barack Obama’s Speech Appeals to Israelis’ Best Instincts — and Interests

  President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem was not merely a home run; it was out of the park. Few people — truth to tell, I can think of none — combine eloquence and substance as well as Obama, and the shame of it is that there was no one on base when he delivered his major…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 30, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Despite Resistance, Penn Hillel Hosts Breaking the Silence

  Despite initially facing resistance from the Hillel of Greater Philadelphia, student members of J Street at the University of Pennsylvania were able to host an event at Penn’s Hillel featuring Breaking the Silence, a group of Israeli Defense Force army veterans who speak out against Israeli military policy. Thursday’s event drew about 60 people and…

  By Seth Berkman Mar 29, 2013 | 2 min read
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  For Anthony Lewis, Saving Lives Was Part of Getting the Story

  At 10:00am on Monday morning, I read on Twitter that Anthony Lewis, the revered New York Times legal writer and columnist, had died at age 85. A few minutes later, I sent out a Tweet calling him “a giant of journalism who saved Gideon & Bosnia.” The Bosnia reference was personal. Along with writing searing…

  By David Rohde Mar 29, 2013 | 5 min read
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  Is Barack Obama Less Pro-Palestinian?

  A new poll indicates that Barack Obama’s Middle East visit left Israelis less convinced that he is pro-Palestinian. A survey conducted before the visit found that 36% of Israelis considered the president more pro-Palestinian than pro-Israeli. This fell a remarkable 20% to 16% in a survey published today. Smith Research conducted both surveys. Though Israelis…

  By Nathan Jeffay Mar 29, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  Jon Stewart on the Link Between GOP & Passover

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  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 29, 2013 | < 1 min read
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  Anthony Lewis, Teacher and Thinker, Cared More About Israel Than His Critics

  In all the richly deserved encomiums that came in the wake of Tony Lewis’s death, there is scarce mention of Lewis’s frequent commentary on the Israel/Palestine conflict. It is as if all he wrote about – and this, all agree, he did brilliantly – was the law and the courts. But in fact his interest…

  By Leonard Fein Mar 28, 2013 | 3 min read
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  Anthony Lewis’s Ideals — In Far-Off Zimbabwe

  Anthony Lewis devoted his life to preserving the ideals of that exceptional and quintessential American liberty: the First Amendment. In 2009, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) honored Lewis with its annual Burton Benjamin Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to press freedom (Lewis was a founding board member of CPJ). Lewis…

  By Mohamed Keita Mar 28, 2013 | 2 min read