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Opinion The Vision Thing
Add our name to the growing list of voices calling upon President Obama to propose a big, bold, far-reaching plan to kickstart the economy and spur job creation. We need the audacity of hope, not the soft prejudice of low expectations, to borrow from a few well-worn campaign cliches. Because make no mistake, this is…
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Opinion Remember Who We Are
When Amy Waldman was writing her engrossing new novel, “The Submission,” premised on a Muslim winning the competition to design a memorial at the World Trade Center site, she wondered if her depiction of the uproar and violence by opponents of the design would ring true. That was before plans to build an Islamic cultural…
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Opinion The Ingatherers
The United States and Israel were born to ingather — the U.S. as the proverbial nation of immigrants, though not all its early settlers came here voluntarily; the modern state of Israel, as the haven and magnet for dispersed Jews everywhere. That is the ideal, anyhow. The reality of who is allowed to enter and…
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Opinion After Eilat
What with Libya, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and the East Coast earthquake, and the gyrations on Wall Street that sometimes feel like an earthquake, it’s been easy to forget what happened on August 18 in southern Israel. Flora Gez and Shulamit Karlinsky, two sisters from Kfar Saba, were travelling in a silvery painted car to a…
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Opinion Rich Jews for Tax Hikes
Warren Buffett is one interesting character. Ranked second on the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans, Buffett has boldly entered the political fray by asking, nay demanding, that Congress raise taxes for him and his mega-rich friends to help close the federal budget deficit. At a mere 17.4%, Buffett’s tax rate last year was…
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Opinion Israel’s Inspiration
A current preoccupation of the American Jewish establishment is diagnosing why so many young Jews are alienated from the state of Israel. Theories abound, from Peter Beinart’s now famous essay on the disappearance of liberal Zionism, to the assertions that college campuses are rife with stealth anti-Israel manipulations. Millions of dollars are being spent for…
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Opinion Working Poet
There is a kind of poetic justice in the news that Philip Levine will be the next poet laureate of the United States. At a time when an economy driven by technological innovation rewards ever-younger thinkers and creators, Levine, at 83, is one of the oldest laureates. He hails from Detroit, that sunken city, and…
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Opinion In Darwin’s Footsteps
In September 1835, when Charles Darwin sailed to the Galapagos Islands, he collected birds and other specimens that helped him explain the natural world and revolutionize scientific understanding. Darwin’s presence still haunts anyone who visits this desolately beautiful archipelago in an isolated spot of the Pacific Ocean, where the 13 distinct species of finches bear…
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