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On the Egypt-Israel Border, a Modern Exodus
Last month, as Jews around the world prepared for Passover, Egyptian border guards were killing migrants trying to cross into Israel. How many of us, as we sat at our Seder tables, were even aware of the dramatic parallel to the Passover story taking place on the present-day Egyptian-Israeli border? Most of those trying to…
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Opinion A Prime Minister’s Bottom Line
Israel’s prime minister was very clear in explaining his bottom lines — and his red lines — for the peace process. “In the framework of the permanent solution,” he said, “we aspire to reach, first and foremost, the State of Israel as a Jewish state” and “alongside it, a Palestinian entity which will be a…
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Opinion A Chill in San Francisco
When San Francisco’s Jewish Community Federation made public its first-ever “Guidelines on Potentially Controversial Israel-Related Programming” earlier this year, it did so with the stated purpose of furthering its commitments to “a secure Jewish community here and abroad, to the strong democratic Jewish State of Israel, and to mutual respect and diversity within Jewish life.”…
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Opinion What the Survey Says About the AJC
As strange as it sounds, there are strong echoes of Marx in the American Jewish Committee’s latest Annual Survey of American Jewish opinion. Be warned. I’m thinking of Chico’s classic line from “Duck Soup” (often wrongly attributed to Groucho): “Who ya gonna believe — me, or your own eyes?” The new survey was announced April…
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Letters April 23, 2010
Discipline Disconnect: Review of Cohen’s Book Misses the Point Barry Rubin’s review of Stephen P. Cohen’s book, “Beyond America’s Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East,” is a classic example of the systematic misunderstanding and predictable short-circuiting created by the clash of distant disciplinary perspectives (“Middle East Politics Beyond Cohen’s Grasp,” April…
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Opinion Behind the Kamm Affair
A young, bespectacled former soldier and a journalist in self-imposed exile have become the latest Rorschach test for the vexing balancing act Israel faces as it tries to defend democracy and protect the safety of its citizens. Those on the left believe that the espionage charge now lodged against Anat Kamm, the 23-year-old former Israel…
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Opinion Excellence on Deadline, and Off
This is the season when journalists honor their own, and it is my pleasure to report that the Forward is a finalist in three categories for the annual awards given by the Deadline Club, the New York Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. This is a record for us, and a distinct thrill, even…
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Opinion Oh, Irony! Oh, Chutzpah! Sen. Sessions Weighs in on High Court Pick
In one of those unintentionally hilarious flukes on Capitol Hill, Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions is the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee and hence the designated quarterback of the GOP response to President Obama’s upcoming Supreme Court nomination. Sessions warned this morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that a Republican filibuster is possible if…
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Opinion Readers Write: My ‘Generation to Generation’ Generated Respons-a
Readers sent in some illuminating responses to my pre-Passover Good Fences column about a recent family Bar Mitzvah ceremony where the rabbi included the child’s non-Jewish father in the service in what struck me as an unusually and admirably welcoming fashion. This first reply came from a rabbi in Southern California, who makes an important…
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Opinion AJC Survey: Jews ‘Deeply Divided’ on Obama’s Iran Policy. Sort of.
The American Jewish Committee released its annual survey of American Jewish opinion today. The headline on the press release reads: “AJC Survey Shows U.S. Jews Sharply Divided Over Obama Approach on Iran.” Here are the first two paragraphs: April 9, 2010 – New York – As President Obama prepares to host the leaders of more…
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Opinion What Happened to Our Organizer-in-Chief?
My enthusiasm for Candidate Obama derived from one principal consideration. I figured that this young upstart would have a hard time with the lions of the Congress, but that he would then invoke his experience as a community organizer, mobilize the vast community that was so enthralled and excited by his candidacy, and have them…
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