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  I’m The Fool. Ackerman’s Not Buying the Mets

  Queens Rep. Gary Ackerman isn’t running for reelection, and the Queens Tribune seemed to be the only media outlet that knew why. A column, penned by Tribune publisher Michael Schenkler, reported that Ackerman had signed on as a managing partner of a group of investors that had reached a deal to buy the New York…

  By Josh Nathan-Kazis

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  What To Do?

  If well-meaning American Jews who love Israel believe that the occupation of Palestinian land and people is detrimental and wrong, what are those Jews to do? How can they express those beliefs and take actions that protect Israel, support their fellow Jews, and also hold Palestinians appropriately accountable for their own actions? One response to…

  Mar 23, 2012 | 3 min read
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  The Courage to Embrace Imperfection

  On March 21, I chose to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day. I gave our 9-year-old son, Shmuel, an extra hug and kiss. But now, with a test called MaterniT21 developed by the biotech company Sequenom, the days for those who want to celebrate Down syndrome may be numbered. MaterniT21 provides an alternative to the older…

  By William Kolbrener Mar 23, 2012 | 3 min read

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• Emily Tamkin Hungary is poised to topple an authoritarian leader. American Jews have something to learn

  

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  Preventable

  The March 23 news story “Two Babies Sickened by Circumcision Rite,” followed up on the recent story of a death from herpes associated with ritual circumcision in New York last September. These are totally preventable tragedies. It is disturbing that with today’s global blood-borne epidemics of not only herpes, but also HIV and Hepatitis B,…

  Mar 22, 2012 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Stop Hating

  It is sad to see the otherwise fine writer Austin Ratner (“Cleveland Rocks — Not Really,” March 16) using the threadbare trope “Cleveland = misery” to describe a city that is on the rise. At a recent community conclave, Ari Maron, a young Jewish developer, stated succinctly that Cleveland self-loathing is a generational phenomenon that…

  Mar 22, 2012 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  No Protection

  In his March 16 op-ed, “The Paradox of Religious Liberty,” Jonathan Sarna criticizes the congressional testimony of Rabbi Meir Soloveichik in the latter’s attack upon the requirement that health insurance plans include the cost of contraception as threatening the “liberties of conscience” inscribed in the Constitution. Sarna contends that Soloveichik overlooked the countervailing First Amendment…

  Mar 22, 2012 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  What Ashton Really Said: Watch the Video

  The foreign policy chief of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, is under furious attack for a speech she gave March 19, several hours after the deadly shootings at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, in which she mentioned the Toulouse attack and deaths of Palestinian youths in Gaza in the same sentence. First Israeli Foreign…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 22, 2012 | 3 min read
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  Ashton’s False Equivalency That Wasn’t

  What could possibly explain the logic of the European Union foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, who stunned the Jewish world on March 19 by lumping together the murdered Jewish children of Toulouse in the same sentence with Arab civilian war victims in Gaza? What conceivable morality could combine them in one thought? As near as…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 22, 2012 | 4 min read
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  Chicago Bundler Flips From Obama to Romney

  A Jewish fundraiser for Mitt Romney says she turned against President Obama over his 2011 call for Israel to return to 1967 borders with mutually agreed land swaps, the Washington Post reported. The bundler, Susan Crown, is a descendant of the now-deceased Henry Crown, a billionaire investor who once owned the Empire State Building. Crown…

  By Josh Nathan-Kazis Mar 21, 2012 | < 1 min read
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  Toulouse Tragedy Shows Rhetoric’s Danger

  Now that France’s nightmare seems to be ending, its many interpretations have begun. As I write, a Frenchman of Algerian descent has claimed responsibility for the horrific murders of French soldiers and a teacher and children at a local Sephardic Jewish school. He identified himself as a member of Al Qaeda, reportedly traveled to Pakistan…

  By Robert Zaretsky Mar 21, 2012 | 4 min read
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  An Act of LGBT Censorship in Seattle

  Last year, Israeli adult film star and newly-minted right wing activist Michael Lucas used his financial clout to bar an anti-Israel group from meeting at New York’s LGBT Center. I was one of many who protested: LGBT community centers are meant for the entire community, including groups with whom we may disagree. But in case…

  By Jay Michaelson Mar 20, 2012 | 3 min read