Opinion

• Opinion

  In a Palestinian State, Which Settlements Move? Here Are the Maps

  Every week seems to bring some new manufactured scandal that’s supposed to prove that the Palestinians aren’t really ready for peace. The latest is the phony blow-up over the statement by the Washington representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Maen Areikat, in which he’s supposed to have called for a “Jew-free” Palestinian state. Josh Rogin…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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• Opinion

  Carrying On After 9/11

  I won’t pretend that the 9/11 program I heard last night at the JCC Manhattan was any more special than the hundreds of programs offered this sad week around the country and around the world. The two people who spoke were probably not even the most sympathetic of all those who lost loved ones that…

  By Jane Eisner Sep 15, 2011 | 2 min read
• Letters

  Limits of Inclusiveness

  Naomi Zeveloff’s September 9 article, “Conservative Synagogues Open Door to Intermarried Couples,” offers a thoughtful analysis of some of the issues facing such congregations. The language in the article, perhaps inadvertently, suggests a certain set of assumptions about the challenges of balancing inclusiveness and the integrity of Jewish religious tradition. Zeveloff writes: “However, non-Jews cannot…

  Sep 15, 2011 | < 1 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman A new humanitarian outrage is unfolding in the Middle East. It’s not in Gaza

  

• Nora Berman The left is turning on AOC over Israel — and imperiling its own agenda

  

• Dan Perry Actually, Trump made things between Israel and Iran way worse

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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• Letters

  No Lobbying Involved

  Thank you for highlighting in a September 16 article the efforts of the Jewish Federations of North America and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to assist non-profits and Jewish institutions as they protect themselves in the post-9/11 reality, in which they have become targets of terrorists. It is worth noting that every grant decision…

  Sep 15, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  An Anti-Orthodox Bias

  Both the September 16 article, “How an Anti-Terror Program Became a Jewish Earmark,” and accompanying editorial are guilty of anti-Orthodox bias. For example, the authors admit that the Reform movement has, in large part, decided not to apply for the Homeland Security grants because it feels there is a church-state issue. But the authors then…

  Sep 15, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  A Palestinian State Even the Securocrats Accept

  I don’t think I’d be going out on a limb to suggest that Israel is having a bit of a rough patch lately, what with its Cairo embassy in ruins, terrorism flaring in the south and new troubles brewing at the United Nations. I could drone on about the dangers, but I don’t need to….

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 15, 2011 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Read Our Palestinian Statehood Q&A

  This morning Yossi Klein Halevi and Hussein Ibish answered questions from Forward and Guardian readers about the Palestinians’ pursuit of UN recognition of statehood. Click here to read all the good questions and the intelligent, thoughtful answers.

  By Gal Beckerman Sep 15, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  Opinion

  A Friend In Deed

  Imagine, for a moment, what might have happened if the President had not taken the Prime Minister’s phone call. It was the night of September 9. The lives of six Israelis locked in their embassy in Cairo hung in the balance, as a surge of angry Egyptians scaled the concrete wall surrounding the building, tore…

  Sep 14, 2011 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Mideast Politics Tilt Queens to GOP. Next: Queens Tilts the Mideast

  The Republican upset victory in the Brooklyn-Queens special election to replace ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner is obviously bad news for Democrats. But it has more far-reaching ramifications, most of them bad, according to this take by Haaretz’s new New York bureau chief, former CNN commentator and onetime Forward Jerusalem correspondent Chemi Shalev. Shalev thinks there are…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 14, 2011 | 2 min read
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  Opinion

  So Now It’s September…And We Still Have Questions

  A few weeks ago in our opinion pages, we ran a symposium asking a group of knowledgeable folks what they thought might happen in September when the Palestinians go to the United Nations seeking recognition of statehood. The answers ran the gamut from total gloom to measured optimism, but in the end there seemed to…

  By Gal Beckerman Sep 13, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  Opinion

  Tea Party’s All-Or-Nothing Tactics Are Path to Nowhere

  The Tea Party now dominates the political conversation on the most important domestic matter we entrust to our leaders: how to spend our money. The notion that the national budget should be cut with little regard for the effects on people’s lives while at the same time insisting that the rich cannot be taxed one…

  By Shmarya Rosenberg Sep 13, 2011 | 4 min read