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The March to AIPAC
It is still more than a week away, but AIPAC’s annual policy conference is already creating a buzz in the political world. Every year organizers promise this will be the biggest pro-Israel gathering ever, but this time around the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has really outdone itself, with 13,000 participants expected to take part…
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Opinion French Jews Mostly Side With Sarkozy
Like the United States, France will choose a president this year. Little more than two months away from the elections, the conservative president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is running behind the Socialist candidate, François Hollande. Several other candidates are polling well: Marine Le Pen of the extreme right-wing Front National hovers at about 20%, followed by the…
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Opinion Liars, Civil Liberties and SuperPACs
In a famous Supreme Court ruling in 1927, Justice Louis Brandeis said: If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. In a perfect world, Brandeis is probably right. But we don’t…
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Opinion Heralded Books Get It All Wrong
America’s chattering classes periodically fall in love with a new book that seems to alter the way we see the world by exposing a hidden crisis or explaining one that defied comprehension. One blockbuster can change history. In the 1960s, best-sellers launched liberal crusades: the war on poverty in Michael Harrington’s 1962 “The Other America,”…
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Opinion Mogul’s $10m Newt Ploy: Stop Santorum, Aid Mitt
Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas gaming billionaire, is reported to be on the verge of donating another $10 million to the pro-Newt Gingrich super-PAC Winning Our Future, which should give some new steam to Gingrich’s fading hopes of winning the Republican nomination. But not that much. According to a Wall Street Journal report (subscribers only;…
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Opinion Report: Hitler Had a Son, Grandkids Live in France
Adolf Hitler’s grandchildren are alive and living in France, according to an investigative report in the French magazine Le Point that’s recounted today on MSNBC.com. And they want a share of the royalties from Mein Kampf. The French magazine report focuses on newly found evidence supporting the claim by their late father, a French man…
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Opinion Taking Aim at Obama on Israel
A political strategy attributed to Republican mastermind Karl Rove advocates going after your rival’s strengths, not his weaknesses. The classic example, of course, is the 2004 Swift Boat attack ads against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The ads went after Kerry’s perceived strength, his war hero credentials, and succeeded in shaking his image. The new…
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Opinion The Title VI Crusade Gains an Address
A new, Washington DC-based organization will advocate for the rights of Jewish students under federal civil rights law. Led by Kenneth Marcus, the former staff director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Louis D. Brandeis Center, Inc. will focus on research, advocacy, and education on anti-Semitism and the law, and will also litigate…
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Opinion ‘Criticize Away’: Hartman Institute Debates Debating
Havruta, a journal of the Shalom Hartman Institute, features a symposium on whether and how to criticize Israel in its February 2012 issue. It makes for interesting reading, with special shout-outs to Yossi Klein-Halevi’s thought-provoking letter to a right-wing friend and editor Stuart Schoffman’s delightful introduction. My own contribution is below. I would link directly…
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Opinion Tweets of Times’s New Jerusalem Bureau Chief
Stop tweeting! That was the loud-and-clear message from Tablet’s Marc Tracy, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the Jewish Journal’s Shmuel Rosner, and others to the New York Time’s Jodi Rudoren this week. They were all admonishing the newly appointed NYT Jerusalem bureau chief for over-sharing on Twitter. We are all, on occasion, guilty of this behavior,…
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Opinion Does Education Fuel Anti-Semitism?
A new study on anti-Semitism, commissioned by the German Parliament, came to the distressing, widely publicized conclusion that 20% of Germans are “latent” anti-Semites. But buried deep in the report is an assertion that might be even more troubling: Holocaust education is inadvertently fueling German anti-Semitism, making it worse. The study concluded that “anti-Semitic stereotypes…
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