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  Land of the Surreal

  In 1911, when the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was published, the entry titled “The Hebrew Language” stated: “The dream of some Zionists that Hebrew — a would-be Hebrew, that is to say — will again become a living, popular language in Palestine, has still less prospect of realization than their vision of a…

  By Gail Hareven

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  So Glenn Beck Calls George Soros a Nazi Collaborator? Marty Peretz Said It First

  The Glenn Beck-George Soros story gets stranger by the day. If you haven’t been following it: Glenn Beck devoted three evenings on his Fox News program last week, November 9, 10 and 11, to a three-part, three-hour documentary about George Soros. It’s titled “The Puppetmaster.” It purports to prove that Soros is the mastermind of…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 15, 2010 | 8 min read
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  Guest Editor: Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a leading figure in American Jewish feminism and a founding editor of Ms. magazine. The author of numerous articles and 10 books, including “Deborah, Golda and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America,” Pogrebin was a founder of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and is a past president of Americans…

  Nov 10, 2010 | 2 min read

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• Jodi Rudoren This is my last column as editor of the Forward

  

• Jay Michaelson American Jews were played — now what?

  

• Rob Eshman I have the answer to Jon Stewart’s toughest question about Israel

  

• 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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  The Deeper We Go, the Clearer Our Understanding

  My connection to the Jewish experience didn’t begin in our Dialogue. It started at birth. As a Washington, D.C. native, born blond and “Barbra”-esque to Palestinian parents who fled West Jerusalem in 1948, I was strangely more mishpucha than habibi. My brother spent his afternoons spouting Mel Brooks-isms while I ran around the house belting…

  By Nadia Saah Nov 10, 2010 | 2 min read
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  We Believe We Can Make A Difference

  I have devoted most of my adult life to working as a diplomat on behalf of Palestinian rights, foremost their right to live as a free and dignified people in their homeland in peace and security, side by side with all their neighbors, including Israelis. Despite many setbacks on the long road to freedom, I…

  By Feda Abdelhady Nasser Nov 10, 2010 | 3 min read
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  Challenging Each Other, In Good Faith

  I was born and raised in New York City, yet when I arrive at Ben Gurion airport I don’t feel protected by my American passport. My heart pounds with anxiety and I feel literally sick to my stomach at the possibility of being interrogated and humiliated. The reason: My father was Palestinian. My Jewish colleagues…

  By Jeanine Shama Nov 10, 2010 | 2 min read
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  Moving Beyond Stereotypes

  At the beginning, I thought, “We will go and show those Jewish women who is the aggrieved and who is the criminal here.” I anticipated a head-to-head confrontation when we talked about Israel’s injustices and human rights violations. I thought the Jews in the Dialogue would try to convince us that Israel has the right…

  By Sabah Allen Nov 10, 2010 | 2 min read
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  Jewish Voters, Obama and the Great Elephant Hunt

  Looking at the midterm election results, even a casual observer can find any number of obvious, unavoidable lessons about the state of our nation. For all the Republican chest-thumping and Democratic breast-beating in the election’s aftermath, it’s hard to miss the core truths that were exposed: the intensity of the economic distress, the depth of…

  By J.J. Goldberg Nov 10, 2010 | 4 min read
• Letters

  November 19, 2010

  A Long Road Toward ‘Leading in a Jewish Way’ How sad that the Forward did not include a category for Jewish education in your list of leaders (“The Forward 50,” November 5 issue). So it goes in North America these days, as we continue to undervalue the very component of Jewish life that is essential…

  Nov 10, 2010 | 2 min read
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  Whose Jerusalem?

  View our interactive maps of West Bank settlement blocks, and their proximity to Palestinian neighborhoods and the security barrier here. Jerusalem is not a settlement, the Prime Minister of Israel stated unequivocally, and what Jew could disagree? Jerusalem is the city of gold, the beating heart of the Jewish people, the place where it all…

  Nov 10, 2010 | 2 min read
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  Critical Thinking Isn’t ‘Delegitimizing’

  One may be forgiven for supposing — or, at least, hoping — that the tradition of infantilizing the American Jewish community would by now be the exception rather than the rule. If nothing else, at least the explosive rise of J Street might have tilted the balance of communal conversation in the direction of sober…

  By Leonard Fein Nov 10, 2010 | 3 min read