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  Must See TV: O’Reilly Chats Up Jon Stewart, Offers Him a VP Slot, Calls Him a Jew

  Here, for your viewing delight, is Jon Stewart’s appearance on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” in three parts. The interview ran over two nights, Tuesday, February 3 (Parts 1 and 2 below) and Wednesday, February 4 (Part 3 below). The whole thing is a fascinating exercise in the current state of the media-politics-entertainment nexus and…

  By J.J. Goldberg

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  ‘No Alternative to Day Schools’: An Exchange

  In our December 11 issue, the Forward published an opinion article from Rabbi Irving Greenberg titled “There Is No Alternative to Day Schools.” Lamenting what he sees as an increasing tendency in the Jewish community to look beyond day schools in favor of less expensive educational alternatives, Greenberg wrote: “I, too, wish there were a…

  Feb 4, 2010 | 10 min read
• Letters

  February 12, 2009

  Don’t Forget Yiddish Your editorial on the need for Hebrew in order to sustain Jewish life in America is particularly surprising coming from the Forward, which throughout its 100-plus year history, and even today, has as a core mission sustaining and advancing Yiddish as a culture and a language (“Taking Hebrew Seriously,” January 29). Although…

  Feb 3, 2010 | 2 min read

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• Nora Berman Is Netflix’s new show the most Jewish cartoon ever?

  

• Dan Perry Israel’s new gift to the far right could help end the Gaza war

  

• Emily Tamkin Entering motherhood — and an obsession with the works of an Italian Jewish literary hero

  

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  On Health, Settling for Change We Can Agree On

  We have reason to be angry. After a year of effort, no comprehensive health reform legislation has reached the president’s desk. Nor have we created a grassroots movement for change. Tragically, we have failed to educate the public about the issues and the approaches embodied in the House and Senate bills or about reasonable alternatives….

  By Rashi Fein Feb 3, 2010 | 4 min read
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  Build a Partnership for Peace, Right Here in America

  With the turbulence surrounding diplomacy and the Middle East peace process, it is more urgent than ever for civil society to unite around the obvious reality that a conflict-ending solution can only be attained through the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security. The two-state solution became…

  By Ziad J. Asali Feb 3, 2010 | 3 min read
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  The Brothers Fein: Big Dreams and Baby Steps

  In my family, we specialize. Ever since graduate school, the specialty of my older brother, Rashi, has been the economics of health care. He was an early and fervent advocate of single-payer national health insurance, and his expert knowledge and thoughtful approaches were widely sought and widely hailed. From time to rare time over the…

  By Leonard Fein Feb 3, 2010 | 3 min read
• Opinion

  Shaking the Pillars of Israeli Democracy

  There’s an old rule of thumb among journalists, safety engineers and other professional snoops: One is happenstance, two is a coincidence, three is a trend. That’s what is so worrying about the witch-hunt recently launched against the New Israel Fund by a group of Israeli right-wing bullies that calls itself Im Tirtzu (“If you will…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 3, 2010 | 4 min read
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  Resist Segregation

  The need to restrain the burgeoning power of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel grows ever more urgent. The latest flashpoint is public transportation. For several years, on an increasing number of public buses, women have been expected not only to cover their arms and legs, but also to board and sit separately from men, in the…

  Feb 3, 2010 | 2 min read
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  A Stronger Military

  Finally, nearly 16 years after the foolhardy “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was enacted by Congress, the nation’s top two defense officials have called for an end to the pretense that somehow America’s military is better off if gay and lesbian service members keep their identities a secret. “No matter how I look at the…

  Feb 3, 2010 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  To Print, or Not To Print?

  This week, the Forward reprints an offensive cartoon of Naomi Chazan accompanying a story about attacks on the New Israel Fund, of which she is president. But we chose not to reproduce any of the Danish cartoons satirizing the prophet Muhammad and offensive to many Muslims — and the subject of a book reviewed by…

  By Jane Eisner Feb 3, 2010 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  If America Sneezes, Israel Gets Pneumonia. What Happens When America Gets Pneumonia?

  You may or may not have noticed this story on the front page of The New York Times. Its main point is that the dizzying growth of our national indebtedness poses a threat not just to America’s economic health and future but to its role in the world. Even if you don’t much follow global…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 2, 2010 | 5 min read