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Opinion Mad Logic
This week’s deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv is a crime against humanity and a reminder of the threat Israelis face every day. Nothing more should need saying, except that people of good will everywhere share the grief of the stricken. Considered in the context of the week’s other headlines, however, the bombing is much…
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Opinion The Risks of War
At least on the face of things, the latest news emerging from Tehran must bring some significant shift in the tone and calculus of American strategic thinking on the Middle East. Former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani announced Tuesday that Iran has succeeded in producing a limited amount of enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. True, it…
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Opinion The Passion of the Pension
The second biggest surprise of Israel’s election last week — after the evaporation of the Greater Israel ideology — was the meteoric appearance of the Pensioners Party. As most of the world knows by now, the party had surfaced as a fringe protest group, all but invisible in voter surveys, but it somehow caught an…
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Opinion Exodus
Wednesday evening, April 12, Jews all around the world will sit down together to celebrate the Seder, the annual re-enactment of their ancestors’ Exodus from Egypt. If the past is any guide, millions upon millions will gather around the table with friends and family to tell stories, sing songs, struggle with bits of Hebrew text…
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Opinion In Dark Times, Blame the Jews
On the face of it, there’s little that’s new in the provocative research paper “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” published online last week by two leading political scientists, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Their underlying thesis, that Israel’s advocates have pressured America into an unjustified and damaging alliance with Israel, has been around…
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Opinion The Other Jewish Vote
The results of the balloting for the American delegation to the World Zionist Congress, announced in New York this week, can easily be taken as evidence of the continuing decline of organized Zionism in this country. Voting in the quadrennial Zionist elections, which peaked in 1987 at close to a quarter-million voters, dropped this year…
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Opinion Harold Ostroff
Few of us are privileged to have a career that allows us to live our ideals while transforming the world we live in. Harold Ostroff had two. In his first career, as head of the United Housing Foundation, he was America’s most successful champion of affordable cooperative housing for working families. In his second, as…
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Opinion Lessons From the Front
Later this month, America and the world will mark the third anniversary of our nation’s invasion of Iraq. It is a sobering moment, and an appropriate time to take stock. If things had gone according to plan, Islamist terrorism would now be on the wane, the Middle East would be a more stable place, the…
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