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  Fun Facts: 2-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Self in Texas

  This is from today’s Houston Chronicle: 2-year-old accidentally shoots himself in Tyler Associated Press Feb. 15, 2011, 10:37AM TYLER – A 2-year-old boy is in critical condition after using a stool to get a gun and accidentally shooting himself in the chest in an East Texas home. Authorities said the incident happened Saturday night when…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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• Opinion

  On Family, Walk the Talk

  Before Jerry Silverman became president and CEO of Jewish Federations of North America, before he worked for another national Jewish nonprofit, he was a leader in the business world. At Levi Strauss & Co. and the Stride Rite Corp., he saw the private-sector experiment with ways to recruit and retain employees concerned about balancing work…

  Feb 10, 2011 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Our Fallen

  Read ‘Profiles of Our Fallen’ and Watch a Related Video. America is entering its 10th year of war, but outside certain neighborhoods and communities, it is hard to tell. Afghanistan and Iraq are worlds away, the missions there cloudy and complicated, and the absence of military conscription means the sacrifice is inequitably distributed. We all…

  Feb 10, 2011 | 2 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson I supported Israel’s actions in Gaza in October 2023 — not anymore

  

• Rob Eshman How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of two in Washington, D.C. 

  

• Nora Berman How the Oct. 7 aftermath splintered the New York Dyke March

  

• Dan Perry It looks like Israel totally underestimated Trump

  

• Emily Tamkin This week proved it: Trump’s approach to antisemitism at Columbia is horribly ineffective

  

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  A Misleading Picture

  Homebound while recovering from surgery, I was able to watch many hours of footage from the Egyptian uprising online. I have seen exactly one overtly anti-Jewish sign, poster or banner from the protests: the one you chose to put on the front page of your February 11 issue. Your editorial “Egyptian Choices” states: “this isn’t…

  Feb 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Give Joe Credit

  Six writers contributed to your forum on the legacy of Senator Joseph Lieberman, but not one of them referred to his role in securing passage of the bill that ended our armed forces’ “Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell” policy (“Exit Joe,” February 4). The fact that America has joined those nations — Israel among them — that allow open…

  Feb 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Mainstream Censors

  Your February 11 news article “Three Years Old, J Street Still Struggles For Acceptance” struck a personal chord with me, in particular its description of how Birthright Israel has refused to allow J Street U to sponsor a trip to Israel, while justifying its partnership with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee because the latter…

  Feb 9, 2011 | 2 min read
• Letters

  More to Leadership Than Being Scorned

  Regarding Benyamin Korn’s January 28 opinion article “Breaking Begin, but Not Palin,” I would hope that most of us judge the strengths of a particular leader or political figure, not on what journalists say about that person, but on what the leader actually achieves in office or what words he or she actually speaks. Just…

  Feb 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  For Corporations, Jobs Go Out of Fashion

  There’s something unsettling about seeing the president — this president, specifically — go before a big-business audience to make nice, as Barack Obama did at the U.S Chamber of Commerce February 7. Normally a president can walk into an event like this and feel instantly at home, swathed in chummy bonhomie as he and the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 9, 2011 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Davening Barefoot

  The latest craze in running is barefoot or minimalistic running — slapping on the equivalent of a thin layer of rubber soles on a sock and then pounding out 5, 10 and even 20 or more miles. Runners who have adopted the habit say it gives them a better “feel” for running. The idea of…

  By Noam Neusner Feb 9, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Don’t Count Out Egyptian Liberals

  Now that the surprise over the sudden outbreak of mass demonstrations is beginning to recede, we are left to survey Egypt’s changed political landscape. Many observers, however, remain fixated on the decades-old power struggle between the regime (which is much larger than simply President Hosni Mubarak or his son Gamal) and political Islam (which is…

  By Tarek Osman Feb 9, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Seize the Day, Tomorrow Could Be Worse

  “We are witnessing a genuine grassroots revolution in Egypt and its outcome will have to reflect the will of the people, not our desires.” So writes a friend from Israel. But “the will of the people,” as awesomely impressive as it has been these past days in Tahrir Square and elsewhere, inevitably becomes a chimera…

  By Leonard Fein Feb 8, 2011 | 3 min read