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The Jewish Roots of Madoff’s Crime
In her engrossing new book on the rise and shattering fall of Bernie Madoff, Diana Henriques points to the key role played by a quartet of very wealthy Jewish entrepreneurs who set up accounts with Madoff by the end of the 1970s. Some of their names, sadly, are familiar to those who have followed the…
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Opinion For the Best Argument Against a Unilateral Declaration of Statehood, Look to the Palestinians Themselves
With the Palestinian Authority intent on declaring unilateral statehood in September, voices in Israel and in the United States have started to argue with increasing vociferousness against this idea. But for the clearest articulation of why Palestinian unilateral action is a wrongheaded approach one has to look no further than to the Palestinians themselves. Among…
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Opinion Taliban, Qaeda Flee Afghan in Panic. Plus: More Israeli Defense Bigs Rip Bibi, Welcome P.A. Unity
Taliban and Al Qaeda members are fleeing northern Afghanistan in disarray, amid a “collapse of morale” following the death of bin Laden, Juan Cole reports on his “Informed Comment blog. It appears that the Taliban were still linked to, and perhaps taking direction from, al-Qaeda, more than most analysts had suspected. It also appears that…
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Opinion Outlawing Circumcision
The subject of circumcision is often relegated to the realm of jokes and cheeky double-entendres, but a San Francisco ballot initiative now gaining momentum would ban the practice, and it raises some very serious issues. At the heart of the current controversy are three fundamental questions. First, is circumcising an infant wrong? Second, should infant…
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Opinion A Personal Meditation on Meeting Lewis Black and Having an Inexplicable Out-of-Body Experience
I participated in a group blog called Rethinking Religion at Columbia University’s Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life. They asked me to go and hear comedian Lewis Black get interviewed by the institute’s director, Mark Taylor, and then write a reaction. The interview took place at the Kraft Center for Jewish Life, which has…
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Opinion ‘It’s a Go’
As a fuller picture emerges of the months and days leading up to the dramatic capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, Americans have been afforded a rare opportunity to see and judge presidential leadership in real time. And this peek into the Oval Office and Situation Room reveals that when Barack Obama faced his…
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Opinion Israel 101
If you can believe the breathless e-mails and exhortations sent to some parents of Jewish college students, the nation’s campuses are swarming with anti-Zionists ready to persuade unsuspecting Jewish students to sign up for the local branch of Hamas. We exaggerate, but not by much. There is an assumption that many campuses are increasingly dangerous…
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Letters Triangle Accolades
I want to commend you for your March 25 special section on the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. I will use it in my master’s-level class, “Social Welfare and the Jewish Community,” in the College of Social Work at the Ohio State University. The Forward took up the cause of the labor union…
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Letters What About Silwan?
Regarding Israel Finkelstein’s May 6 article “In the Eye of Jerusalem’s Archaeological Storm,” I find it curious that he has written a lengthy article about the City of David’s “whirlwind of conflicting political agendas” without once referring to the planned eviction of over 1,500 Arab residents of Silwan, the demolition of their 88 homes, and…
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Letters Independent Bookstores Are Still Alive
The article about the new owners of the Washington bookstore, Politics and Prose, includes an unfortunate line: “the age of independent bookstores seems to have closed” (“Coveted by Jewish Bidders, D.C. Bookstore Finds New Owners,” April 8). The vigor of Politics and Prose and its many prospective purchasers, as reported in your story, belies that…
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Letters Getting it Backward on Hebron
I am writing concerning the April 1 opinion article “The ‘A-word’ in Hebron” by Letty Cottin Pogrebin. I was deeply offended by it. I think she has things backward. The separation is because Palestinians won’t let Jews live in Hebron without an Israeli military presence. And let’s remember that Hebron is holy to both Muslims…
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