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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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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Opinion 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…
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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…
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Opinion 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….
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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