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Opinion Finding Our Voice
Amid the unfolding national furor over the storm and its aftermath, it’s hard not to notice the silence of the major national Jewish public-policy agencies. As Eve Kessler reports on Page 1, most had nothing to say on this, the gravest American public policy crisis in years, and those that commented did so only under…
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Opinion Storm Warning
Any hope that the worst of Hurricane Katrina had passed was destroyed Tuesday, as the levees protecting New Orleans from flooding gave way. It is hard to imagine how the Big Easy and the city’s 500,000 residents ever will recover. Still, as the ancient Rabbi Tarfon famously declared, “You are not required to complete the…
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Opinion Losing Iraq
From a purely symbolic point of view, President Bush hardly could have picked a more unfortunate day than this past Monday to emerge from vacation and speak out in defense of his Iraq war policy. Beset by falling polls and burgeoning anti-war protests, Bush chose a friendly audience at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention…
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Opinion Breaking the Ice on Warming
There was, according to news reports, a heartening spirit of compromise in evidence in Greenland last week when officials from 23 nations gathered to discuss global warming. The occasion was a four-day visit to the massive Ilulissat glacier, a United Nations landmark that is rapidly melting into the ocean. Hosted by Denmark, which governs Greenland,…
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Opinion Sabotaging Peace
Given Israel’s wrenching efforts to open a new page in its relations with the Palestinians, it is depressing to see groups supposedly committed to morality and human rights continue to demonize the Jewish state as though nothing at all had changed. Over the past two years, a motley assortment of churches, trade unions and local…
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Opinion Orneriness and Its Discontents
In the end, there was nothing but sheer orneriness driving President Bush’s decision to go behind the Senate’s back and send John Bolton to the United Nations by recess appointment. He embarrassed America and did Bolton no favor, but he got his way. If Bush had a point in the first place in nominating Bolton,…
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Opinion Standing With Israel
With just days to go before Israel begins pulling its troops and settlers out of Gaza and the northern West Bank, a weird air of unreality has settled over the subject. For most Israelis, soldier and civilian alike, the discussion is over, and little remains but to roll the trucks, clear out and hand over…
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Opinion Solidarity Foreboding
The splintering of the AFL-CIO this week by the departing teamsters’ and service employees’ unions should be seen by liberals, progressives and friends of human rights everywhere as a terrible milestone in American social history. It should be, but it isn’t. And that’s the real tragedy. To be sure, the breakup was reported across the…
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