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  Why Didn’t the Palestinians Get Their State Before 1967?

  In your November 19 editorial “Whose Jerusalem?” you accurately point out that, from 1948 to 1967, much of East Jerusalem was part of the “West Bank.” However, the editorial draws the wrong conclusion from this important piece of history. In 1947, U.N. Resolution 181 created not only a Jewish state out of the British Mandate,…

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  Foxman Knows That Being a Leader Means Defending Human Rights and Israel

  Abraham Foxman is one of the best known and one of the most formidable of Jewish communal leaders (“As Some Retire From ADL, Will Abe Be Next?” November 5). A Holocaust survivor, Abe manifests a visceral understanding of the requirements of Jewish leadership. He never wavers in his commitment to the welfare of the Jewish…

  Dec 8, 2010 | < 1 min read
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  A Boycott Spreads

  You know the delegitimization campaign targeting Israel has reached new heights of absurdity when the rallying cry against the Jewish state is now being waged with the help of the chickpea. What a low blow — Israel’s enemies are hitting where it really hurts: hummus. Hummus, that pasty spread without which pita has no purpose,…

  By Thane Rosenbaum Dec 8, 2010 | 3 min read

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• Nora Berman ‘Eddington’ is full of conspiracy theories but it’s not about Jews. Or is it?

  

• Dan Perry Recognizing a Palestinian state is a great way to doom Palestinians

  

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  Why Disparage a Policy That Protects Jewish Students?

  It’s troubling that a professor of Jewish history at the University of California, Davis, would disparage the federal government’s new policy affording Jewish students the same civil rights protections that have been guaranteed to other minority groups for close to 50 years (“Federal Civil Rights Policy Expanded To Protect Jewish College Students,” November 12). David…

  Dec 8, 2010 | < 1 min read
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  Opening Our Tent

  Intermarriage has taken center stage this past year. The marriage of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvkinsky spurred a national conversation about intermarriage. The Rotem bill roiled Israel-Diaspora relations, sparking considerable debate over conversion policy and the question of how to incorporate the hundreds of thousands of Israelis from intermarried families into the Jewish people. Even…

  By Edgar M. Bronfman Dec 8, 2010 | 3 min read
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  Our Money, Their Salaries

  The Forward created its annual survey of executive compensation in Jewish nonprofits to enable our readers to make informed choices about their own philanthropic giving and to hold leaders accountable for their pay and performance. That’s what we do in America. If the salary of the occupant of the Oval Office is public information, surely…

  Dec 8, 2010 | 2 min read
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  Who by Fire?

  Who before their time, indeed. Nothing is more painful, more devastating, than the absurdly untimely death of the young, here compounded by the realization that they died knowingly, terror their companion, as the incineration engulfed them. May their memory be for a blessing. And what can we learn from this disaster? The uplifting part, of…

  By Leonard Fein Dec 6, 2010 | 3 min read
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  As Forest Burns, Fire Gear Is AWOL: Israel Gives ‘Low Priority to Anything That Doesn’t Shoot’

  The fire in the Carmel is horrible, and the deaths are painful and deeply felt. But the tragedy that played out wasn’t a twist of fate or an act of God. It was an act of persistent, long-term, almost willful government negligence. Israel has almost no firefighting capacity—pitifully few firefighters working with a tiny stock…

  By J.J. Goldberg Dec 5, 2010 | 5 min read
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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 Dec 3, 2010 | < 1 min read
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  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