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Opinion Repentance and Regret
It is September, and it is time for regret. A chill has entered the air, with a suddenness that never fails to surprise. We want to think that the warmth and ease of summer will last at least a bit longer, but it never does. We’re out of time. As Frank Sinatra used to sing,…
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Opinion Outing the Jews
In one sense, at least, Senator George Allen of Virginia reacted as any American Jew would do when he was confronted earlier this month, during a televised campaign debate, with questions about his reputed Jewish ancestry: He replied indignantly that it was nobody’s business. One could quibble (or, as it turned out, stir up a…
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Opinion The Pope, Islam and History
In the fall of 1776, as the newly independent American colonies set about drafting their individual state constitutions, a furious debate erupted over the rights of religious minorities. Preachers and populists warned that letting non-Protestants vote and hold public office, as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were urging, could result in “Jews, Turks and Infidels”…
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Opinion Curious, George
There’s not much left to say about Virginia Senator George Allen and the strange twists in his reelection campaign. Already smarting from his use of an ethnic slur against a Democratic campaign aide, Allen was flummoxed this week when a journalist asked him about a recent Forward report that his mother was of Jewish origin….
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Opinion Effie’s Choice
Effie Eitam’s call for mass expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank would be lamentable at any time and place. Coming at a pivotal moment in Middle East diplomacy, fraught with new threats and new opportunities, such a statement by an influential Israeli lawmaker constitutes a singularly mischievous assault on decency. At the same…
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Opinion Nine-Eleven, Plus Five
Next Monday, September 11, marks the fifth anniversary of the deadly attacks against New York and Washington that plunged the world into what we call the global war against terrorism. In a daring act of spectacular savagery, the terrorists of Al Qaeda struck at the heart of our culture and our civilization, seeking to throw…
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Opinion Renewal in Elul
Elul, the lunar month that precedes the Jewish New Year, is by tradition a time of reflection and self-accounting. It is the warm-up to the spiritually grueling Ten Days of Awe and Penitence that run from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur. As we scrub our homes each year in the days before Passover, so we…
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Opinion A House Divided
During his July 20 speech at the annual NAACP convention, President Bush acknowledged his party’s decades-long failure to win support from black Americans. “I understand that many African Americans distrust my political party,” Bush said. “I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historic ties with the African…
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