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  As Egypt Erupts, Barak Sows Chaos in IDF Senior Command

  Small minds might expect that with everything going in Egypt, Israel’s senior defense officials would have spent the last week focused on what happens next along Israel’s long, undefended southern border. But of course, that’s not how things work these days, now that Israel has Ehud Barak, the most decorated soldier in Israel’s history, as…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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  Hello, Germany

  It is cold, unreasonably cold, and the fact that the news from around the world is mostly terrible doesn’t help. Having in mind the good and welfare of my readers, as also my own desire for an uplifting thaw, here is some news to warm the freezing heart. For the 11th year in a row,…

  By Leonard Fein Feb 4, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Why It Makes Sense To Single Out Glenn Beck

  Recently 400 rabbis signed a letter to Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, asking him to sanction Fox News Channel’s most popular host, Glenn Beck. Their concern: Beck’s ongoing invocation of the Holocaust and Nazis to demonize his opponents, as well as his use of traditionally anti-Semitic language to attack Jewish philanthropist George Soros. Jewish…

  By Mik Moore Feb 3, 2011 | 4 min read

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  The Gipper’s Gift: A Pro-Israel GOP

  As America marks the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, we will be remembering one of our country’s greatest leaders with speeches, tributes and television specials. Friends of Israel will have a special reason to celebrate: Reagan made the Republican Party into the unambiguously pro-Israel party that it is today. Indeed, before the Reagan era,…

  By Tevi Troy Feb 3, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Case for Organ Donation Remains Solid

  Does Jewish law allow the donation of organs from brain-dead patients in order to save lives? The recent report by the Rabbinical Council of America’s Vaad Halacha, or committee on Jewish law, suggests that new medical information should cause us to answer “no.” Even though the RCA’s leadership has since clarified that the organization has…

  By Baruch A. Brody and Shlomo M. Brody Feb 2, 2011 | 4 min read
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  How Global Warming Felled Mubarak

  The craziest part of the uprising in Egypt is how it caught us all by surprise. After all, it was predicted — three years ago. Unfortunately, nobody was paying attention. It sounded too weird. The warnings weren’t coming from political analysts, but from climate and crop experts. Which means — what? Climate topples dictator? No…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 2, 2011 | 3 min read
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  ‘From Hell to Paradise’

  It was 25 years ago, and I still remember the deep, sharp cold as we stood on the Glienicke Bridge that winter morning. The day before, journalists from around Europe were brought to the bridge that separated the outskirts of West Berlin from the East German town of Potsdam. Something important was to happen the…

  By Jane Eisner Feb 2, 2011 | 2 min read
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  Egyptian Choices

  The revolution sweeping the Arab world is both exhilarating and frightening, and it is understandable that fear is overtaking excitement in the hearts of many American Jews. We are anxious about threats to Israel’s safety and the waning Western influence in a region that suddenly has exploded with populist rage. Our geopolitical expectations are violently…

  Feb 2, 2011 | 2 min read
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  Will Tunisians Rue Their Revolution?

  It is somewhat ironic that Tunisia would be the catalyst for revolutionary upheaval in Egypt and, quite possibly, for future uprisings in the Arab world. Tunisia’s founding father, Habib Bourguiba, turned his nose up at Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arabism, emphasizing instead his own country’s uniqueness and forging close ties with the West. And, as I…

  By John R. Bradley Feb 2, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Glenn Beck Isn’t the Only Offender

  In recent weeks the debate about branding one’s political opponents “Nazis” has become quite heated. Most of the attention has focused on Fox News’s star performer Glenn Beck, who has made it a practice to compare his opponents to Nazis. Alas, Beck is not the only one at Fox making such offensive comparisons. When Fox…

  By Deborah E. Lipstadt Feb 2, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Israel’s Stakes, Egypt’s Streets

  With Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic, pro-Western regime under threat from the angry Egyptian masses, it appears we are witnessing a new dawn for the power of the “Arab street” in Egypt, Tunisia and potentially elsewhere. This is going to be a profound challenge for Israel, whose only diplomatic or even clandestine relationships with Arab states have…

  By Yossi Alpher Jan 31, 2011 | 3 min read