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Opinion The Doctors’ Plot
July has been a cruel month for those among us who long for an ebbing of the worldwide tide of violent Muslim extremism. Problems that were bad got worse this month. New and more frightening mutations appeared. And the month isn’t even half over. In Iraq, the four-year-old bloodbath went on despite the best efforts…
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Opinion Blind Justice
The United States Supreme Court gave the nation a curious sort of birthday present on the eve of the July 4 holiday: an unintended opportunity for a piercing discussion of this nation’s fundamental values. In a weeklong flurry of eye-popping judicial activism and ideological triumphalism, the court shredded some basic legal doctrines and moral principles…
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Opinion Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Illegal
The United States Senate passed a moral test of historic magnitude this week when it approved a procedural measure that revives the much debated, much delayed overhaul of America’s immigration laws. The immigration reform bill itself is not something commonly spoken of in high moral terms. The product of months of horse-trading by Democrats and…
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Opinion One Palestine, Kaput
Gaza’s dramatic, bloody descent into chaos last week pushed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to the center of the world’s consciousness with a sudden force that was matched only by its profound unfamiliarity. For the first time in recent memory, Palestinians were suffering hellish violence and privation in which Israeli hands had no part. Most of…
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Opinion Avraham Burg’s New Zionism
Zionism has meant many things to many people over the past century. To Theodor Herzl and the founders of the Zionist movement, it meant creating a national home to gather in the Jewish people — to some minds, as a refuge from antisemitism; for others, as a fulfillment of an ancient promise. To Herzl’s great…
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Opinion Our Ownership Society
It seems like eons ago, but there was a time — in living memory — when Jews in America and around the world had leaders who stood up before their people and the world and actually led, and were followed. They seemed like giants in their day, and perhaps they were. Most of all, they…
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Opinion 6 Days Plus 40 Years
Forty, the Talmud teaches, is the age for understanding. Twenty is an age for hot-blooded quest, and 30 is the age of force and power. By 50, we are expected to be imparting and accepting wise counsel. Forty is the turning point: the age of understanding, the time, as it were, for the light to…
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Opinion A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
Perhaps Paul Wolfowitz deserved to get pushed out of the World Bank for helping his girlfriend get a new job and a hefty pay raise. At the same time, though, his critics should at least have the decency to admit that the latest scandal disproves the popular (and unfair) claim that Wolfowitz’s main goal in…
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