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  A Story Whose Effects Continue to Ripple Out

  As editors, we are always looking for stories that will resonate with our readers, tales that will connect with them in some deep and meaningful way. And when we hear that a story we’ve published has had a big impact, it causes us to stop and savor the thought that our work has made a…

  By Lillian Swanson

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  Opinion

  Jewish School Graduates Focus on Themes of Persecution

  Thousands of graduates of Jewish day schools will head off to college this September. But unlike graduates of public school, they will begin their higher education with credentials in Hebrew, Tanach and Talmud, along with mathematics, English literature and biology. And many of these students will enter secular colleges, bringing their uniquely Jewish worldviews into…

  By Rachel Burstein Sep 19, 2011 | 3 min read
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  Opinion

  Everyone’s Constitution

  At the end of the most recent debate among the seven Republicans vying for their party’s nomination to be President, moderator Wolf Blitzer of CNN asked each of them what they would bring to the White House should they become president. More bedrooms for his seven children, answered Rick Santorum. A bust of Winston Churchill,…

  Sep 16, 2011 | 2 min read

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• Alyssa Katz Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

  

• Rob Eshman ‘Remember the Liberty’ has become code for ‘Israel Is Evil’ 

  

• Dan Perry A new proposal to radically destabilize Israel

  

• Emily Tamkin Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point

  

• Jay Michaelson When it comes to Israel/Palestine, everyone is sure that everyone else is a bigot

  

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  Opinion

  For Israel and Turkey, Breaking Up Is Easy To Do

  When Israel and Turkey first forged their now shattered alliance in the late 1990s, there was much to bring together the two countries. The odd men out in the Middle East, both were non-Arab military powers who had either strained or outright hostile relations with their neighbors, a domestic terrorism problem and a strategic vision…

  By Yigal Schleifer Sep 16, 2011 | 4 min read
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  Opinion

  In a Palestinian State, Which Settlements Move? Here Are the Maps

  Every week seems to bring some new manufactured scandal that’s supposed to prove that the Palestinians aren’t really ready for peace. The latest is the phony blow-up over the statement by the Washington representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Maen Areikat, in which he’s supposed to have called for a “Jew-free” Palestinian state. Josh Rogin…

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 16, 2011 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Carrying On After 9/11

  I won’t pretend that the 9/11 program I heard last night at the JCC Manhattan was any more special than the hundreds of programs offered this sad week around the country and around the world. The two people who spoke were probably not even the most sympathetic of all those who lost loved ones that…

  By Jane Eisner Sep 15, 2011 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  A Palestinian State Even the Securocrats Accept

  I don’t think I’d be going out on a limb to suggest that Israel is having a bit of a rough patch lately, what with its Cairo embassy in ruins, terrorism flaring in the south and new troubles brewing at the United Nations. I could drone on about the dangers, but I don’t need to….

  By J.J. Goldberg Sep 15, 2011 | 4 min read
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  Read Our Palestinian Statehood Q&A

  This morning Yossi Klein Halevi and Hussein Ibish answered questions from Forward and Guardian readers about the Palestinians’ pursuit of UN recognition of statehood. Click here to read all the good questions and the intelligent, thoughtful answers.

  By Gal Beckerman Sep 15, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Limits of Inclusiveness

  Naomi Zeveloff’s September 9 article, “Conservative Synagogues Open Door to Intermarried Couples,” offers a thoughtful analysis of some of the issues facing such congregations. The language in the article, perhaps inadvertently, suggests a certain set of assumptions about the challenges of balancing inclusiveness and the integrity of Jewish religious tradition. Zeveloff writes: “However, non-Jews cannot…

  Sep 15, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  No Lobbying Involved

  Thank you for highlighting in a September 16 article the efforts of the Jewish Federations of North America and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to assist non-profits and Jewish institutions as they protect themselves in the post-9/11 reality, in which they have become targets of terrorists. It is worth noting that every grant decision…

  Sep 15, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  An Anti-Orthodox Bias

  Both the September 16 article, “How an Anti-Terror Program Became a Jewish Earmark,” and accompanying editorial are guilty of anti-Orthodox bias. For example, the authors admit that the Reform movement has, in large part, decided not to apply for the Homeland Security grants because it feels there is a church-state issue. But the authors then…

  Sep 15, 2011 | < 1 min read