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  Israel’s Social Justice Protest, By the Numbers

  In 1983, when news of the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps became known, about 300,000 Israelis jammed the streets of Tel Aviv to protest their government’s involvement. It was a very big deal, thought to be one of the largest demonstrations of its kind in Israel’s history. The protests for social justice…

  By Jane Eisner

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  Is Derfner the Problem, or Are the Israeli People?

  There is still much discussion about the firing early last week of Larry Derfner, the lefty Jerusalem Post columnist. Derfner wrote in our pages that he regretted making it seem like he was legitimizing Palestinian terror against Israelis. He intended only to shock his readers into thinking about what some of the reasons behind the…

  By Gal Beckerman Sep 6, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  A Decade Later, Children of 9/11 Look Back

  These essays were written by writers for New Voices Magazine, the national Jewish student magazine. For more essays on this theme, go to the New Voices website. Joshua Walfish What started as a beautiful, sunny day in Rockville, Md. ended with images of darkness that will be etched in my mind for the rest of…

  Sep 6, 2011 | 6 min read

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  All the News That Fits: Israel, Having a Bad Day

  Some days it’s just not worth getting out of bed. Here are some top headlines from today’s Haaretz.com. After the jump, some top headlines from Ynet-Yediot. Report: Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza Turkish officials tell Hurriyet Daily News that Turkish navy will strengthen presence in eastern Mediterranean Sea to stop…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 5, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Fresh Headlines From the Crypt: ‘Bomb Auschwitz,’ Says Golda; FDR: No Way

  The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Philadelphia offers an annual list of The Ten Most Absurd Statements About Allies’ Responses to the Holocaust. The list is a high point in the institute’s unceasing mission to keep the heat on President Franklin D. Roosevelt for having done nothing to stop the Nazi genocide…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 5, 2011 | 8 min read
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  Forward Editor Reveals Herself!

  Okay, I will come clean. In Daniel Gordis’s latest column for the Jerusalem Post, he writes about meeting “one of America’s leading Jewish journalists” whom he describes as “extraordinarily smart” and who cares a lot about Israel. Imagine my surprise to read about myself. Not that I mind his characterization (thank you, Daniel!), but I…

  By Jane Eisner Sep 2, 2011 | 2 min read
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  Million Israeli Protest Goes Ahead Despite Terror

  On September 3, if all goes according to plan, more than a million Israeli protesters in 50 towns and cities will take to the streets to back up their call for social and economic justice. Not even continued violence on the border with the Gaza Strip is likely to throttle the protests or get the…

  By Riad Kabha and Yaniv Sagee Sep 2, 2011 | 3 min read
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  The Vision Thing

  Add our name to the growing list of voices calling upon President Obama to propose a big, bold, far-reaching plan to kickstart the economy and spur job creation. We need the audacity of hope, not the soft prejudice of low expectations, to borrow from a few well-worn campaign cliches. Because make no mistake, this is…

  Sep 2, 2011 | 2 min read
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  Why I Wrote That Palestinian Terror Is Justified

  The writer, a former columnist at the Jerusalem Post, was fired from his job on August 29 for a blog post entitled “The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror,” which he published on his personal website, Israel Reconsidered. Click here for excerpts from the blog post that got Derfner fired. Why did I do it?…

  By Larry Derfner Sep 1, 2011 | 5 min read
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  Larry Derfner’s Offending Blog Posts

  We’ve now posted a piece by Larry Derfner, who was fired earlier this week from the Jerusalem Post, where he had been a longtime left-leaning columnist. He makes reference to his initial blog post (dated August 21 and now removed from his website, Israel Reconsidered) that lost him his job. With his permission we have…

  By Gal Beckerman Sep 1, 2011 | 3 min read
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  To Get on Winning Path, Obama Should Act Like Democrat

  Some time after Labor Day (ironically) President Obama plans to deliver a major speech on jobs. Nobody knows what he’ll say — not even the president himself, Washington pundits say — but that hasn’t stopped critics from attacking him. The left is accusing him of planning halfway measures. The right attacks him for pandering to…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 1, 2011 | 4 min read