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  Eight Votes Between Them

  So where are we now that the decidedly low-tech process known as the Iowa caucuses is completed, all the little slips of paper have been counted and Mitt Romney was ahead by just eight votes? I can think of three basic takeaways and they coincide with the three candidates who have emerged last night as…

  By Gal Beckerman

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  The Losers in Russia’s Adoption Ban

  I used to see them fairly often in airports, nicer hotels or restaurants. Living in Eastern Europe, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine and later working for a non-profit in Russia, I’d become adept at spotting other Americans in public. I sized them up, taking into account the color and style of their…

  By Susan Armitage Jan 4, 2012 | 2 min read
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  Cantor on Why Jews Vote Dem: To Repair the World

  Eric Cantor on “60 Minutes” Sunday night, grilled by Leslie Stahl on why most Jews are Democrats, unthinkingly digs himself into a hole and then tries pathetically to get out of it. He starts by saying it’s been “the bane of my existence for a long time,” being a serious, devoted member of a community…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jan 4, 2012 | < 1 min read

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  Santorum Joins Gingrich in Not Seeing Palestinians

  “All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis. They are not Palestinians. There are no Palestinians.” — Rick Santorum

  By Gal Beckerman Jan 3, 2012 | < 1 min read
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  Wisc. Teens on Parade: You Can’t Scare Them.

  Marching in the Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day, the Pulaski High School “Red Raiders” Marching Band, honoring their home-state University of Wisconsin Badgers. They proceed smartly through the streets of Pasadena, California, playing “On Wisconsin.” Then they stop in front of the reviewing stand—apparently an unplanned stop, as the announcers seem surprised—and while…

  By J.J. Goldberg Jan 3, 2012 | < 1 min read
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  GOP Candidates Take Hard Line on Iran

  With Iowa’s caucuses set for tonight, Republican hopefuls are doubling down on their rhetoric on the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions in an apparent effort to distance themselves from GOP candidate Ron Paul. Front-runner Mitt Romney, dark horse Michele Bachmann, and the late-surging Rick Santorum all promised a readiness to launch military strikes on…

  By Josh Nathan-Kazis Jan 3, 2012 | 2 min read
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  What Would Barack Do?

  Jewish Democrats don’t have a say in who wins tonight’s Iowa’s Republican caucuses. But they do have opinions about which candidate President Obama should be pulling for. Most hope an arch-conservative like Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry takes the key contest, beating frontrunner Mitt Romney and dark horse Ron Paul. If one of…

  By Josh Nathan-Kazis Jan 3, 2012 | 3 min read
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  Ghost of Israel’s Future

  We know that Avigdor Lieberman is following events in Russia closely. After the December 4 parliamentary elections there were tainted by ballot stuffing and other violations roundly condemned by Western election monitors, Lieberman offered his own assessment of whether democracy had been harmed: “The outcome of the elections reflects the mood in Russia,” he said….

  Jan 2, 2012 | 3 min read
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  Are Holocaust Images Too Hurtful?

  The ongoing protests against the exclusion of women from the public sphere by some Haredim, and counter-protests by Haredi activists who say they are maligned by critics, have everyone in Israel talking. The subject was quite provocative enough. And then came the Holocaust reference to make it even more so. On New Year’s Eve night,…

  By Nathan Jeffay Jan 1, 2012 | < 1 min read
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  A Crazy World, From Pyongyang to D.C.

  Our world has rarely seemed so impenetrably mysterious as it has these past days. The spectacle of hysterical weeping and wailing in North Korea follows hard on the heels of 10,000 protesters marching in downtown Cairo in outrage over photos of soldiers dragging women by the hair and stomped on them, stripping them half-naked in…

  By Leonard Fein Jan 1, 2012 | 3 min read
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  Orthodox Divisions Over Extremism, Responsibility

  Two very important articles in Haaretz this week that shed light on the violent extremism emerging from the two main streams of Israeli Orthodoxy. One, a feature article in today’s weekend section by senior correspondent Yair Ettinger, focuses on the growing furor over Haredi extremism, assaults on women’s rights and the violence in the Haredi…

  By J.J. Goldberg Dec 30, 2011 | 4 min read