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Opinion Cutting and Running
Democrats in the Senate tried to flex their muscles this week by capitalizing on popular dislike of the war in Iraq to call for a scheduled American troop withdrawal. What they got instead was a reminder of their own fecklessness as they split their ranks between competing resolutions that Republicans gleefully described as “cut and…
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Opinion Honoring Our Religion
The quarrel that erupted this week between Moshe Katsav, president of Israel, and Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, could easily be dismissed as a case of wounded pride, an inconsequential squabble over symbols without substance. But that would seriously understate the gravity of the dispute. In refusing to address the…
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Opinion A Kosher Storm
It seems the Forward has kicked up quite a storm with our May 26 report from Postville, Iowa, describing working conditions at AgriProcessors, the world’s largest kosher meatpacking plant. Our Letters page this week and last carries a sampling of the response we’ve gotten from readers across the country, most of them wondering how a…
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Opinion Homeland Insecurity
There isn’t much left to say that hasn’t already been said about the Bush administration’s nonsensical decision to cut nearly one-third of its federal counter-terrorism assistance to local governments, and then to take what’s left and redistribute it from the places where it’s most needed (New York and Washington, down 40% each) to places that…
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Opinion Moral Ambiguity and the CIA
This week’s disclosure that the CIA helped to hide Adolf Eichmann’s tracks during the 1950s, contained in newly declassified documents from the National Archives, should generate anger, sadness, even revulsion — but not surprise. The postwar role of our intelligence agencies in ignoring, hiding and even recruiting ex-Nazis, in the name of fighting the Soviets,…
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Opinion A Farewell to Dreams
It might not be apparent at first glance, but something important has shifted in the Middle East in the past few weeks that could, with wisdom and luck, change the dynamic of Israeli-Palestinian relations for the better. For the first time in years, the top leaders on both sides have come out with forceful diplomatic…
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Opinion Slaughterhouse Rules
Many Jews nowadays find Shavuot, the holiday that begins next Thursday evening, June 1, to be among the hardest of Jewish holidays to embrace and take to heart. It lacks the pageantry and symbolism of Passover, the majesty of Yom Kippur, the intimacy of Hanukkah. It celebrates the Torah, Judaism’s sacred book of Law, but…
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Opinion Why Israeli Arabs Are a Jewish Issue
The leadership of several major American Jewish organizations recently established a task force to improve relations between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews and to address the disparities of opportunity and discrimination confronting Arabs in Israel. The task force comprises 50 Jewish organizations and aims to generate awareness among both North American Jews and Israelis, with…
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