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Opinion Sharon at the Ranch
Summit meetings typically are staged events whose purpose is to let two leaders throw their arms around each other and tell the world how much they have in common. Now and then, though, a summit is staged with the opposite goal: to let the leaders bump up against each other and show off their differences….
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Opinion Drunken-sailor Economics
It barely caused a ripple on the news pages, but America took another big step this week toward former-superpower status with the announcement by the Commerce Department that our trade deficit had set a new record in February. The deficit, the difference between exports and imports, came to $61 billion, thanks to Americans’ insatiable taste…
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Opinion A World of Difference
Israel’s prime minister is not a pope, nor are any of Israel’s chief rabbis. The chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is not a pope, nor is the president of the World Jewish Congress, even though his title seem close to papal in its resonance. Even the rebbe was not…
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Opinion The Legacy of a Pope
For those of us who are neither Catholic nor Christian, it was at first startling to witness the worldwide outpouring of emotion that greeted the death of Pope John Paul II. A man dies. His job comes open. A replacement will be chosen. One might expect this to be a time of grieving for those…
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Opinion Our Culture of Life
Sun Hudson died in a Texas hospital last month, just shy of 6 months old. Few Americans ever heard his name, before his death or since. They ought to learn it, repeat it to themselves and remember it. His fate can teach us a great deal about the American “culture of life” of which President…
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Opinion The Uganda Plan
Starting this week, the Forward begins a multipart series of articles looking at some of the civil conflicts that are wreaking havoc in the traditional societies of central Africa, one of the world’s poorest regions. We sent our correspondent Marc Perelman to spend several weeks in several countries, including Uganda, Congo and Rwanda, observing the…
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Opinion Mars vs. the Mullahs
Nothing so tests the ingenuity and will of humankind as the exploration of the unknown. That primordial drive explains, more than scientific or technological progress, the continuing grip of space travel on our imagination. It reminds us that we are, after all, human, specks floating in a limitless expanse that we are nonetheless commanded to…
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Opinion Increasing Joy
Purim, the festive day celebrated by Jews around the world this weekend, is a children’s holiday with very adult undertones. Recalling the famous victory recounted in the biblical Book of Esther, in which the Jews of Persia foiled a plot by the wicked viceroy Haman to destroy them, it is celebrated with costumes, noisemakers and…
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Fast Forward ‘I was first and foremost Jewish,’ said Wesley LePatner, killed in NYC shooting
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Fast Forward Americans’ support for Israel in Gaza plummets to record low, new Gallup poll finds
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