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  Why We Don’t Miss Rummy

  It was (literally) a blast from the past, a tableau of familiar faces from the last Bush administration, but the men on stage had less hair — except for Michael Medved’s wonderfully bold, black moustache. The author and talk-show host was the moderator of a discussion sponsored by the Jewish Policy Center, a think tank…

  By Jane Eisner

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• Opinion

  The Israeli People, With a Capital ‘P,’ Demand Social Justice

  Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I was able to watch, in the comfort of my air-conditioned living room in Boston, the entire September 3 protest rally in Tel Aviv via a live stream provided by the Israeli news website, YNet. (By way of contrast, my Israeli friends, who were there in the flesh,…

  By Leonard Fein Sep 9, 2011 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Shock and Irony: Poll Shows GOP Leading Dems for Weiner’s Seat

  Shock now, irony later: The latest Siena poll shows Republican businessman Robert Turner leading Democratic state assemblyman David Weprin in the race to succeed Anthony Weiner in New York’s 9th Congressional District by a healthy 50%-44% margin. The poll’s religious breakdown shows the Republican winning on the strength of a hefty Catholic showing, despite Jewish…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 9, 2011 | 2 min read

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  Israel felt pain of 9/11 terror attacks with New Yorkers

  Michael Oren recalls that fateful day.

  By Michael Oren Sep 9, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Opinion

  Crossing the Line

  Rabbi Mendy Goldberg of the Chabad House of Coram, on Long Island, N.Y., was one of scores of people interviewed by Forward reporters examining the scope and impact of a federal program providing grants to nonprofits at risk for terrorism. “There were a few incidents of anti-Semitic slurs and vandalism,” he said. “Then we found…

  Sep 9, 2011 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Jewish Groups on Obama: JCPA Liked the Speech, ZOA Isn’t That Into Him

  Jewish organizations generally don’t react quickly to events unless they involve terror attacks in Israel or blatantly anti-Semitic statements by foreign dictators, but one organization managed to whip out a response to President Obama’s jobs speech—a favorable one, as it happens—less than an hour after the president finished speaking. The quick response was from the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 9, 2011 | 3 min read
• Letters

  Let Ethiopians In

  Len Lyons’s September 9 article, “The Last Ethiopian Jews Finally Make Aliyah,” is a fine example of a disappearing genre: a newspaper article that takes a relatively unknown, complicated subject and, in broad comprehensible strokes, lays out the critical issues. However, one of the issues discussed in Mr. Lyon’s fine piece deserves a little more…

  Sep 8, 2011 | 2 min read
• Letters

  Supporting Israel’s Protests

  Nathan Guttman’s September 2 article, “New Israel Fund Alone in Funding Israel Protests,” stated that “the leaders of most major American Jewish organizations have been noticeably silent” about the demonstrations taking place in the State of Israel calling for new economic policies by the Netanyahu government. The Jewish Labor Committee’s support of the demonstrations can…

  Sep 8, 2011 | < 1 min read
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  Israeli Protests Give Masses a Reason to Speak Out

  If you’ve ever been to Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina, the circular public plaza in the north of the city, you’ll know just how utterly large it is. It’s a massive, usually empty expanse ringed by posh stores like Louis Vuitton and Gucci — the epicenter of Israeli capitalism, if you will. And so it was…

  By Gal Beckerman Sep 8, 2011 | 4 min read
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  For Jews, Holiday Season Offers Chance To Set Aside Pride

  Well, here we are in the month of Elul, approaching the sacred Jewish season of repentance and forgiveness. This is the month set aside in tradition for practicing our shofar blowing and apologizing to our neighbors. So what’s the big message out of the Jewish state? “No apologies, no way.” And a happy new year…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 8, 2011 | 4 min read
• Letters

  Arab-American Thanks

  Thanks so much for your September 9 editorial “Remember Who We Are.” I am an Arab-American (though not a Muslim one) and I really appreciated the thoughtful reminder that the Jewish and Muslim communities have much in common in terms of their liberal attitudes and eager participation in American life. We all must confront the…

  Sep 8, 2011 | < 1 min read