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  Make Music, Not Boycotts

  Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has come out in favor of the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign targeting Israel. The British rock legend [recently issued][1] “a plea to my colleagues in the music industry, and also to artists in other disciplines, to join this cultural boycott.” Below, Israeli musician Kobi Oz responds to Waters’s boycott…

  By Kobi Oz

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• Opinion

  Video: Poking Fun at Tznius

  There’s a young Orthodox woman named Dina Mann whose hilarious new YouTube video has gone viral. In it, she impersonates a mamish chasidishe woman who takes a trip to Miami and is surprised at the pool when men arrive. You can watch Mann’s video here. For those who want to fully appreciate the Miami trip…

  By Debra Nussbaum Cohen Mar 12, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  ADL, Reform Hit House Hearings on Extremist Islam; AJC Praises Them

  The major American Jewish civil rights organizations are reacting strongly to Rep. Peter King’s congressional hearings into American Muslim radicalization, which opened Thursday on Capitol Hill. The Anti-Defamation League issued a public statement arguing that the hearing has “engendered an unfortunate atmosphere of blame and suspicion of the broader American Muslim community.” The Religious Action…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 11, 2011 | 3 min read

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  A Question of Loyalty

  One person’s terrorist may be another person’s freedom fighter. Surely, Peter King knows that. The Long Island congressman essentially uses that argument as a defense when confronted by his own past support of the Irish Republican Army as it was bombing and terrorizing in the name of Irish freedom. His justification — “the I.R.A. never…

  Mar 9, 2011 | 2 min read
• Letters

  Exhibition Will Look at Jews and the Civil War

  In his March 11 column “What the Civil War Meant to American Jews,” Jonathan Sarna argues correctly for the war’s significance to the Jewish community. He is right to bemoan the fact that Jewish organizations today have largely foregone the opportunity presented by the war’s sesquicentennial to commemorate its historic impact on Jewish life. However,…

  Mar 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Reports of Stereotype’s Death Are Premature

  Contrary to what Lenore Skenazy wrote in her March 4 column “Were JAP Jokes a Justification for Intermarriage?” the JAP stereotype is hardly a thing of the past. In fact, JAP jokes are alive and well among today’s young people. Look no further than “University of Michigan Pursuit of Jappiness,” a parody video of Kid…

  Mar 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Liberal Judaism Needs To Find a Worldview

  The crisis in the liberal streams of Judaism is twofold (“Liberal Denominations Face Crisis as Rabbis Rebel, Numbers Shrink,” February 18). The decline of 14% of Conservative families in a decade is jaw-dropping. Yet demography is only one part of the crisis. There is also a crisis of meaning in the larger denominations of American…

  Mar 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  ‘Should We Welcome?’ Is the Wrong Question

  Your February 4 editorial “Who Isn’t a Jew?” rightly identified the discrepancy between the Jewish community’s embrace of Gabrielle Giffords as a Jew and its ongoing discomfort welcoming intermarried and patrilineal Jews. But the editorial ends by suggesting that there is still a need to disprove the notion that “opening the tent too wide will…

  Mar 9, 2011 | 2 min read
• Letters

  Glenn Beck vs. the Biblical Prophets

  Deborah Lipstadt is wrong to suggest any equivalence between the left and the right when it comes to using Nazi analogies to attack political opponents (“Glenn Beck Isn’t the Only Offender,” February 11). The leftists Lipstadt cites as using Nazi comparisons do not have a major media outlet at their every beck (pun intended) and…

  Mar 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  When Liberals Turn Their Backs on Labor, America Loses

  That empty, hollow sound you hear is the sound of the American Jewish community ignoring the big showdown in Wisconsin. Which is odd, if you think about it. Normally, America’s most divisive political fights become divisive Jewish fights more or less automatically. Whether it’s about the Middle East, school prayer or abortion, we’re in the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Mar 9, 2011 | 4 min read
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  Nice Country for Camping, Not for Fracking

  Years ago, I used to lie in my bed at Camp Tel Yehudah and listen to the water flowing in the Delaware River just behind my cabin. Today, I am reminded of my camping days as I worry about the natural gas rush that threatens to pollute the water supplies of 15 million people who…

  By Mirele B. Goldsmith Mar 9, 2011 | 3 min read