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Opinion The Jefferson Y
We know a thing or two about Virginia politicians with secret Jewish roots. Just ask George Allen. But Thomas Jefferson? As The New York Times reported Wednesday, “Researchers studying Jefferson’s Y chromosome have found it belongs to a lineage that is rare in Europe but common in the Middle East, raising the possibility that the…
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Opinion Dreaming of Surge, Acting in Serge
Good news from Iraq has been a rarity for so long that the very idea seems almost oxymoronic. This week, however, brought some of the best news in a very long time: The Bush administration has finally agreed to talk to the other players in the worsening conflict, including Iran and Syria. Over the next…
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Opinion Frankly, a Shameful Record
The recent discovery that the family of Anne Frank had unsuccessfully attempted to obtain an American visa before being captured by the Nazis shines light on the failure of the United States to do enough to save Jews from the Holocaust. In reaction to the news, Rep. Steve Israel has reintroduced a bill to make…
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Opinion Let’s Mecca Deal
You might not know it from all the second-guessing, but the world got some good news from Beijing this week with the announcement of a breakthrough in North Korea nuclear talks. After years of broken deals and apocalyptic threats, America and its partners finally got the world’s most paranoid dictatorship to agree to freeze its…
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Opinion Straight Talk on Energy
A showdown is poised to erupt over energy and environment policy later this month in Washington, when a council of the nation’s most influential Jewish advocacy organizations convenes for its annual policy plenum. As our Jennifer Siegel reports on Page 1, divisions have emerged during the drafting of the council’s proposed energy resolution, pitting those…
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Opinion The Battle for Gaza
The terrorist attack that took three lives in the Israeli resort town of Eilat last Monday was an atrocity, and the organization that plotted and executed it, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, deserves every punishment the Israeli military can mete out. Bombing a suburban bakery is not an act of war. It is a crime against humanity….
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Opinion Infamy
It’s hard to fathom what could have possessed the leaders of the American Jewish Committee to publish the screed posted on their Web site this week, “’Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism,” by Alvin Rosenfeld of Indiana University. From its sensationalist title to its tired invocation of the Holocaust in the opening paragraph to…
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Opinion Mr. Bush’s Political Science
Now that President Bush has offered up his best notion of what it might mean to govern in a bipartisan fashion during his last two years, it’s clearly up to the Democrats to come up with a plan that has at least a chance of working. The president’s plan, as spelled out in this week’s…
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