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  Perry Does Letterman With ‘Top 10 Excuses’

  David Letterman just presented an amazing Top Ten list: “Top Ten Rick Perry Excuses,” presented by Texas Governor Rick Perry (for real). He actually did a pretty good job – got some outright laughs, hammed it up just right. If anything could save his candidacy, this might have been it. No. 10: Actually, there were…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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  What Globalization Has Wrought

  Fans of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman might get a kick out of this. Nearly a decade and a half ago, the acclaimed economist savagely reviewed a new book on the perils of economic globalization, dismissing it as “simplistic,” “foolish,” “thoroughly silly” and more. He said the author, Rolling Stone investigative journalist William Greider,…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 10, 2011 | 4 min read
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  ‘A Very Serious Charge’

  Twenty years ago, when a law professor named Anita Hill testified before a phalanx of United States senators about her former boss, Clarence Thomas, one of her male interlocutors — they were, remember, all men — belittled her description of Thomas’s lewd, inappropriate behavior. “This sexual harassment crap” is what he said it was, as…

  Nov 10, 2011 | 2 min read

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• Dan Perry Recognizing a Palestinian state is a great way to doom Palestinians

  

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  Attack on Iran Unlikely — For Now

  The recent intimations that Israel is planning a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure are not likely to lead to any such action anytime soon. More likely, they reflect an attempt to generate stronger international sanctions, coming as they did just as Vienna’s International Atomic Energy Agency was about to release a report confirming Israel’s…

  By Yossi Alpher Nov 9, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Israeli Democracy Questions War on Iran

  The infighting in Israel over whether or not to attack Iran, which went public more than a week ago and will continue unless and until the bombs start falling, shows this country at its best and worst. So far, the best is winning. Until Israel’s No. 1 journalist, Nahum Barnea, exposed it in his Yediot…

  By Larry Derfner Nov 8, 2011 | 4 min read
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  Why We Added Obama, Part 2

  It’s not every day that The Blaze, Glenn Beck’s website, responds to this blog, and I’m glad they did. In our latest back and forth, the editor pointed out that our presentation on our website of this year’s Forward 50 was confusing at first. Fair enough. It was. Though the Forward 50 was started more…

  By Jane Eisner Nov 7, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  Fundraisers: Young Jews Donate, But Not To Israel

  Leaders of federated Jewish philanthropies agree almost unanimously that younger, under-50 Jewish donors—even those already committed to giving to Jewish causes—have little interested in giving to Israel, reports Haaretz’s Chemi Shalev in a blog post from the General Assembly of Jewish federations, now meeting in Denver. There is a general unease about giving to Israel,…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 7, 2011 | 2 min read
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  Remembering Our Fallen

  Two more dead. One in Afghanistan, one in Iraq. Since earlier this year, when the Forward published a sorrowful package of profiles of the 37 Jewish men and women in the United States military who had died in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, two more names now must be added to the list….

  Nov 7, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Le Pen Gains Little Traction on U.S. Trip

  She came, she saw, and she was ignored. Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Front has not conquered America as she reaches the end of her five-day official trip. In fact, she has scarcely raised a ripple on the surface of the American media. The New York Times has ignored Le Pen’s whirlwind…

  By Robert Zaretsky Nov 6, 2011 | 4 min read
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  Agreeing With the 99% Protesters

  For those of a progressive bent, there’s good news these days in public opinion surveys. There’s also some odd news, as well as a puzzle. The good news: In an October 19-24 poll by The New York Times and CBS News, 2/3 of Americans were of the view that “the money and wealth in this…

  By Leonard Fein Nov 6, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Why We Added Obama

  The old adage that all publicity is good publicity relates to journalism, as well. So I was pleased to see that The Blaze, Glenn Beck’s website, thought enough of our annual Forward 50 project to write about it. Of course, what interested The Blaze wasn’t the list of 50 American Jews who have shaped the…

  By Jane Eisner Nov 4, 2011 | 2 min read