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  Hey, Kids: It’s Time for Goldberg’s Great Hanukkah Concert 2010!

  We begin with Melvin and the Chipmunks singing their own Hanukkah song: Followed by the all-celebrity edition of “The Eight Nights of Hanukkah (My Bubby Gave to Me…)” Now, listen up: The hottest Hanukkah song this year is “Candlelight,” performed by the Yeshiva University a capella group The Maccabeats (with apologies to Taio Cruz and…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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• Opinion

  Parsing a Palestinian Poll on Peace, With Prejudice

  What’s in a name — or, in the case at hand, in a headline? Well, if you’re the Zionist Organization of America, what’s in your headline is whatever distortion of the data you’re discussing that you think you can get away with. Case in point: On November 11, the ZOA released a statement intended to…

  By Leonard Fein Dec 1, 2010 | 3 min read
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  Asking for the Right To Serve, and To Tell

  My grandfather, of blessed memory, would have hated “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” He was a scrupulous and fiercely principled person, and I believe that his experience serving in the military can shed light on our understanding of the debate over this policy today. My grandfather immigrated to Canada from Poland at the age of 13….

  By Ayelet S. Cohen Dec 1, 2010 | 3 min read

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  Making Jewish Paychecks Fair

  Just a week before the Paycheck Fairness Act died in the U.S. Senate, we learned that female Jewish communal professionals are paid, on average, $28,000 less than men working in the field, according to data from a new study by the Jewish Communal Service Association and the Berman Jewish Policy Archive. When the data is…

  By Jill Jacobs Dec 1, 2010 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Religious Hedonism on Capitol Hill

  Religion has long been front and center in American conservative political discourse. Far more than liberals, conservatives have been effective in framing issues with resonant religious language and values. Yet the theological language employed by some of today’s leading Republicans has degenerated into what can be described only as religious hedonism. Take Senator Jim DeMint,…

  By Avraham Bronstein Dec 1, 2010 | 3 min read
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  WikiLeaks, Revolutions and the Maccabees

  If you’ve tried to follow the saga of WikiLeaks and the Great Diplomatic Document Dump, you’ve probably noticed how easy it is to get lost in the morass of detail. Even after filtering by the press, it’s hard to see the memos as anything more than a random jumble of gossipy tidbits, peppered with the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Dec 1, 2010 | 4 min read
• Letters

  December 10, 2010

  A Bribe for Which Both Parties Will Pay Your December 3 editorial, “A Dangerous Link,” is right on target. The Obama administration’s offer of military assistance to Israel in return for an Israeli commitment for a three-month settlement construction freeze is “not beneficial to either nation.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears bent on extracting…

  Dec 1, 2010 | 3 min read
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  Leaking for Leaking’s Sake

  The cascade of diplomatic cables unleashed by WikiLeaks and published by some of the world’s most respected news organizations has left us ambivalent and uncomfortable — as Jews, as journalists, as citizens. It’s impossible to say whether the predictions of the most dire consequences of this enormous dump of scattered information will come true, whether…

  Dec 1, 2010 | 2 min read
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  Hiring Rights and Wrongs

  Back in 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama warmly endorsed his predecessor’s faith-based initiative, allowing churches and other religious groups to compete for federal grants to deliver social services, but with one major caveat. President Bush allowed those faith groups to discriminate in hiring. Candidate Obama pledged to end the practice. “If you get a federal grant,…

  Dec 1, 2010 | < 1 min read
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  Denial at the Western Wall

  Really? What did Al-Mutawakel Taha, the Palestinian Authority’s deputy minister of information, think he would accomplish by issuing a “scientific” report claiming that the Western Wall wasn’t actually a Jewish historic site? Taha told the Forward’s Nathan Jeffay that the report was intended to educate the Jewish people. Thanks, but we don’t need this sort…

  Dec 1, 2010 | < 1 min read
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  Wikileaks Back Israel’s Iran Claims. Sunni Arabs Share the Fear. So Why Don’t They Work Together? Well…

  A news analysis by Yaakov Katz in today’s Jerusalem Post makes the very sensible point that the Wikileaks super-dump evidently vindicates Israel’s arguments that the Iranian nuclear project is everybody’s problem, not just Israel’s. Progressives and isolationists have been claiming more or less since the Iraq invasion in 2003 that the constant brouhaha over an…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 29, 2010 | 3 min read