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Opinion Finding the Real Israel
As Israel celebrates its 57th birthday this week, Israelis and their friends around the world face a challenge unlike any they have encountered since the Jewish state was born. Put bluntly, things are basically okay, and nobody is quite sure what to make of it. The signs are everywhere. Israelis are experiencing a mild economic…
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Opinion Justice in Retirement
While Americans squabble over a theoretical retirement crisis that may or may not develop over the next half-century, a real retirement crisis is unfolding before us right now, and nobody’s doing a thing. It’s called our collapsing pension system. The latest pension plan to collapse was the United Airlines plan, which the bankrupt airline dumped…
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Opinion That War, 60 Years Later
The leaders of more than 50 nations representing some half the global community, including virtually every country in Europe as well as Japan, China, the United States, Canada and Israel, will gather in Moscow next week to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nazi surrender that ended World War II in Europe. The May 9…
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Opinion Sharansky Bows Out
The resignation of Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs, Natan Sharansky, should be an occasion for at least some kind of disturbance in the Israel-Diaspora relationship. That it passed without a ripple says much about the meaning of the Israeli post and of Sharansky’s own agenda on the job. The title of Diaspora affairs minister was…
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Opinion Let the Remembering Begin
In six days’ time, on the 26th of the Hebrew month of Nisan, Jewish communities in Israel and around the world will gather for the annual ritual of remembrance known as Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Solemn assemblies will be held in synagogues, museums and government buildings. Around the world the ritual will be…
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Opinion Quiet, Dons
Great Britain’s academic community brought shame on itself last week with the incomprehensible decision by the country’s largest college teachers’ union, the Association of University Teachers, to boycott two Israeli universities. The decision should be rescinded at once. The resolution, adopted Friday by a slim majority of the association’s council, charges the two Israeli institutions…
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Opinion The Next Pope
In selecting Joseph Ratzinger as their 265th pope, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church were not seeking to break new ground, but opting for continuity. They were voting to carry on the work of the last pope, the charismatic and long-serving John Paul II. Despite all the pre-election rumors of an African, Latin American…
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Opinion The Season of Freedom
This weekend, at dinner tables around the world, Jews and their loved ones will sit together and reenact one of history’s earliest recorded struggles for human rights, the Exodus from Egypt. No Jewish ritual is more ancient, more widely honored or more relevant today. In telling the story of their ancestors’ flight to freedom, celebrants…
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