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Opinion ‘It’s a Go’
As a fuller picture emerges of the months and days leading up to the dramatic capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, Americans have been afforded a rare opportunity to see and judge presidential leadership in real time. And this peek into the Oval Office and Situation Room reveals that when Barack Obama faced his…
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Opinion Israel 101
If you can believe the breathless e-mails and exhortations sent to some parents of Jewish college students, the nation’s campuses are swarming with anti-Zionists ready to persuade unsuspecting Jewish students to sign up for the local branch of Hamas. We exaggerate, but not by much. There is an assumption that many campuses are increasingly dangerous…
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Opinion Pride and Justice
We feel safer today. Not completely safe, but safer. Osama bin Laden’s death does not eradicate al Qaeda, nor does it eliminate the terrorist threat from this virulent network of violent radicals. It may, in fact, make the United States and its allies, notably Israel, more vulnerable to revenge attacks in the coming days and…
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Opinion America Must Lead
September 1, 2010: President Obama hosts the leaders of Israel, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority in what is optimistically billed as the opening meeting of a year-long effort to finally arrive at a two-state solution for Mideast peace. Eight months later: Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak is deposed, King Abdullah of Jordan is clutching onto power,…
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Opinion Birth Pains
Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution stipulates that the president must be a “natural born Citizen.” Scholars agree that the reason for this narrow exception to an otherwise broad description of eligibility was the well-founded fear, back in 1787, that a European prince or duke might immigrate to America and seek to install…
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Opinion A Changing of the Guard
One of the things I learned early on in journalism is to be good to your staff members, because you’ll never know when one of them will become your editor. Sure enough, that happened to me a few months after I arrived at the Forward in 2008, when the position of opinion editor opened up…
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Opinion Pick Your Peril
Passover is best known as the festival of freedom, but it has a second name that resonates just as deeply: the festival of spring. The two are not unrelated. Spring, the season of renewal, brings its own promise of freedom. It brings warmth and new growth, freeing us from the hardships of winter. More important,…
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Opinion A Season for Freedom
One of the most remarkable features of the celebration of Passover is how decentralized it is. The Seder takes place in the home, away from the watchful eyes of rabbis or other religious authorities; it can be personal and fluid, quick or lengthy, in whatever language suits the leaders and guests. The Haggadah’s requirements are…
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