Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the 1967 War, also known as the Six-Day War, in which Israel preempted an attack from four neighboring Arab states and captured the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights and the…
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Opinion Pre-Oscar Reading: Meaning Between the Lines of ‘A Serious Man’
Like a lot of people I know, I was blown away by the Coen Brothers’ Oscar nominee, “A Serious Man.” Behind the absurdist comedy, it captured a penetrating insight about the Job theme in Jewish tradition and the vapidity so pervasive in contemporary American Jewish life. But I’ve been struggling in the months since I…
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Life A Casualty of the Six Day War: Judaism
In a withering j’accuse, Ha’aretz’s Bradley Burston makes the case that “while the Jewish state survived the war, Judaism as we knew it — Orthodox Judaism in particular — did not.” Burston writes: If absolute occupation corrupts absolutely, no group would be more corrupted by Israel’s presence in the territories than rightist rabbis. Of course,…
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Life Six Day War Caused Sexual Impotence, Price Hikes
The Associated Press looks at the lingering psychic wounds in the Arab world from the 1967 Six Day War: Egyptian columnist Wael Abdel Fattah wrote in the independent weekly Al-Fagr newspaper that Arabs blame the defeat for “everything” — from “price hikes, dictatorship, religious extremism, sectarian strife, even sexual impotence.” “A military defeat, that could…
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