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  Sarah Palin’s Geography Lesson: Bethlehem Is Where? Oh, Whoops.

  Sarah Palin has been raising eyebrows in Israel since she set out Monday morning, on her second day in Israel to visit the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem. According to several news reports, which appear to trace back to this one in the London Telegraph, her car headed south from Jerusalem but stopped just short…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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• Opinion

  Learning From Itamar

  Like many others who have been watching the story, my immediate reactions to the grotesque murders in Itamar jumped from shock, to horror, to profound sorrow. Again, like many, I scrutinized the gory details repeatedly, read accounts of the funeral and the eulogies of the family members, and even lay in bed at night forced…

  By Zev Farber Mar 18, 2011 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  Shocked, Shocked: Israeli Web Freedom Group Cries Foul As Police Block Gaming Sites

  The Israel Internet Association warns in a court filing, reported on News 1 (Hebrew only) ,that freedom of expression in Israel will be “mortally wounded” if the police are allowed to go ahead with an order blocking access to eight Internet gambling sites. The Internet Association’s lawyer, Web freedom specialist Haim Rabia, presented his arguments…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 18, 2011 | < 1 min read

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• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  Barak Attacks Bibi: Time To Offer Genuine Negotiations Before ‘Diplomatic Tsunami’ Hits

  Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, warned this week that the government he helps to lead is leading the country to disaster. Speaking to the Institute for National Security Studies Tel Aviv on Sunday March 13, he said that the country faces a “diplomatic tsunami that the majority of the country is unaware of.” He sounds…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 18, 2011 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Reckoning Wrongly in a Massacre’s Wake

  “A proper revenge for the blood of a little child/Satan has not yet devised.” So wrote the revered Hebrew poet Chaim Nachman Bialik in his searing poem “On the Slaughter” in April 1903, a few days after the bloody Kishinev pogrom. The two-day rampage by townspeople in the czarist regional capital had left the Jewish…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 16, 2011 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Fogel Photographs

  Two images of the Fogel family are circulating after five of them were brutally murdered March 11 while sleeping in their home in the Israeli settlement of Itamar. The first is a montage of warm, sweet faces: Udi and Ruth, the parents, he with a full, neatly trimmed beard, she with a scarf covering her…

  Mar 16, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  The Triangle Legacy

  A century later, why does a fire in a garment factory resonate so deeply? The deadly inferno at the Triangle Waist Company on March 25, 1911, is being commemorated in hundreds of different events, coast to coast, in word, song, poetry and deed, because it represents many of the touchstones of the American experience. It…

  Mar 16, 2011 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Awards and Accolades

  It’s awards season in the journalism world, and I’m pleased to report that the Forward has already brought home a few. At its annual dinner March 10, the Community Media Alliance in New York gave two of its Ippies Awards to Josh Nathan-Kazis for writing about labor and education, and one to Nadja Spiegelman for…

  By Jane Eisner Mar 16, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Stand With Workers

  I am a Jewish Wisconsinite, a member of the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Madison, a public employee and a union member. I have been deeply disappointed that Wisconsin’s Jewish federations are not standing with me as I struggle to preserve (and now restore) my rights (“In Madison, Only Some Jewish Voices…

  Mar 16, 2011 | 2 min read
• Letters

  Political Correctness Shouldn’t Stop Inquiry

  Few clichés are more mischievous or responsible for more deaths than the one that is the unfortunate set-up for your editorial: One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter (“A Question of Loyalty,” March 18). Repudiating that cliché has been a centerpiece of Jewish communal activism for more than 40 years. As the United States…

  Mar 16, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Grasping Benedict

  The essay on Pope Benedict XVI’s second volume of “Jesus of Nazareth” by Rabbi Eugene Korn evinces a mature understanding of the pope’s philosophy and theology (“Benedict’s ‘Jesus’ and the Jews,” March 18). Sadly, this is something often missed by Catholics, so it is especially gratifying that Rabbi Korn nicely captured the essence of the…

  Mar 16, 2011 | < 1 min read