Opinion

• Opinion

  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

  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
• Opinion

  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

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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

  

• Emily Tamkin Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear

  

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• 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
• Opinion

  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
• Opinion

  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
• Opinion

  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
• Opinion

  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
• Opinion

  Songs of Thanksgiving With Psalms 92 & 136, Groucho, Noshville Katz & Lots More!

  Yes, it’s time for another holiday concert, this time in celebration of Thanksgiving. I offer the two classic American Thanksgiving songs, “We Gather Together” and “Over the River and Through the Woods.” Also, the two familiar Hebrew classic (to my mind) songs of thanksgiving, “Tov LeHodot” from Psalm 92 and “Hodu Lashem” from Psalm 136….

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 25, 2010 | 3 min read
• Letters

  The Investigative Project on Terrorism Responds

  Your Nov. 18 article, “Terror Expert Emerson Feels His Own Heat Over Finances,” continues to repeat the mistakes made last month by the Tennessean concerning the Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation’s structure and finances. It perpetuates the fiction that Steve Emerson is somehow collecting more than $3 million for his private purposes and doing nothing…

  Nov 24, 2010 | 4 min read
• Opinion

  The Wrong People Shouting

  When I was a teenager, the late Phil Ochs was a folk-singing hero of mine. In his classic song, “Love Me, I’m a Liberal,” he skewered armchair liberals who talked a good game, but wouldn’t go as far as their more radical comrades. This attitude, of course, appealed to many in my generation as we…

  By Kenneth Bob Nov 24, 2010 | 3 min read