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Israeli Democracy Questions War on Iran
The infighting in Israel over whether or not to attack Iran, which went public more than a week ago and will continue unless and until the bombs start falling, shows this country at its best and worst. So far, the best is winning. Until Israel’s No. 1 journalist, Nahum Barnea, exposed it in his Yediot…
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Opinion Why We Added Obama, Part 2
It’s not every day that The Blaze, Glenn Beck’s website, responds to this blog, and I’m glad they did. In our latest back and forth, the editor pointed out that our presentation on our website of this year’s Forward 50 was confusing at first. Fair enough. It was. Though the Forward 50 was started more…
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Opinion Fundraisers: Young Jews Donate, But Not To Israel
Leaders of federated Jewish philanthropies agree almost unanimously that younger, under-50 Jewish donors—even those already committed to giving to Jewish causes—have little interested in giving to Israel, reports Haaretz’s Chemi Shalev in a blog post from the General Assembly of Jewish federations, now meeting in Denver. There is a general unease about giving to Israel,…
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Opinion Remembering Our Fallen
Two more dead. One in Afghanistan, one in Iraq. Since earlier this year, when the Forward published a sorrowful package of profiles of the 37 Jewish men and women in the United States military who had died in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, two more names now must be added to the list….
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Opinion Le Pen Gains Little Traction on U.S. Trip
She came, she saw, and she was ignored. Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Front has not conquered America as she reaches the end of her five-day official trip. In fact, she has scarcely raised a ripple on the surface of the American media. The New York Times has ignored Le Pen’s whirlwind…
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Opinion Agreeing With the 99% Protesters
For those of a progressive bent, there’s good news these days in public opinion surveys. There’s also some odd news, as well as a puzzle. The good news: In an October 19-24 poll by The New York Times and CBS News, 2/3 of Americans were of the view that “the money and wealth in this…
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Opinion Why We Added Obama
The old adage that all publicity is good publicity relates to journalism, as well. So I was pleased to see that The Blaze, Glenn Beck’s website, thought enough of our annual Forward 50 project to write about it. Of course, what interested The Blaze wasn’t the list of 50 American Jews who have shaped the…
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Opinion An Ill-Timed Move
What were they thinking? The Palestinians, we mean. While there may be heart-thrumming symbolic value to achieving full membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as they did October 31, it comes at great cost to all concerned, including the very people the agency aims to help. UNESCO is probably best known…
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Letters The Media Has Rights, And Responsibilities
Your September 23 article regarding Sheldon Adelson, Ronald Lauder, and Israel’s Channel 10, “American Billionaire Sparks Israeli Media Furor,” misses the main point. The article asserts only the media’s rights, and ignores the media’s responsibilities, in reporting news. You report that a number of editors at Channel 10 resigned when they were forced to issue…
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Letters Awaited Realignment
In assessing the growing divide in American Jewish opinion regarding how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jay Michaelson (“The Logical Realignment,” October 14) claims this “is simply an alignment of conservatives with conservative policies and of liberals with liberal ones.” Were it this simple, the great liberal majority of American Jews would unambiguously support President…
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Opinion Mideast Conflict as Zero-Sum Game
Several readers have written in to protest my last column, which dissected conservative responses to the recent summons to Jewish unity issued by the Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee. Reader complaints are nothing unusual, but this time some good points were raised that forced me to rethink. In the process I’ve come across some…
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