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Opinion To Know a Muslim
Amid the discouraging news about public opinion around the planned construction of an Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan, there is one positive, underlying theme. It’s a deeply American theme, and in these suspicious, often depressing times, it’s essential to remember: Education breeds respect. Familiarity begets trust. The theme was found in the latest New…
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Opinion Exiting Iraq
After President Obama finished his Oval Office address, declaring an end to the combat mission in Iraq, one of TV’s talking heads grumbled that what was wrong with the president was that he seemed to love the troops but hate the war. Actually, that strikes us as what is right about the current occupant of…
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Opinion Making Israel Work
Part two of a series on poverty in Israel; to read part one, click here. Ephraim Guttman illustrates both the face of poverty in Israel and a solution. Dressed in the uniform of the ultra-Orthodox — the requisite black suit and white shirt, which makes no concession to the scorching summer heat — he does…
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Opinion A Threat From Within
Part one of a series on poverty in Israel; to read part two, click here. In May, when Israel was invited to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a 31-nation club of the world’s most elite, developed economies, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz called it “a badge of honor.” Indeed, it is. Acceptance means…
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Opinion Facing Alzheimer’s
Have you confronted Alzheimer’s disease in person? Then you know it’s not simply about someone who misplaces the car keys or cannot remember the name of the movie seen last week. The loss of short-term memory is frustrating, and sometimes frightening, but Alzheimer’s is so much more. It’s the man who wanders away from home,…
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Opinion Citizens at Birth
In the United States, the debate is over the 14th Amendment. In Israel, it’s centered on a government decision to deport the children of migrant workers. The core issue is the same: Should birth confer citizenship? And who gets to decide? The first question ought not to be difficult to answer, for the right to…
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Opinion The Mosque and Us
Before it became a cause célèbre for Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich and other rank opportunists, before the Anti-Defamation League sullied a once-noble reputation by siding against religious liberty, before the tweets and satellite trucks spun this all out of control, the plan to turn an eyesore of an empty building two blocks from Ground…
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Opinion The Swastika on My Wall
Does the swastika represent animus against Jews alone, or should it be considered a symbol of universal hatred when it is directed against a Hispanic immigrant or an African-American family? The Anti-Defamation League has decided that the infamous, four-pronged symbol has become a broader expression of hatred and therefore won’t automatically consider its use anti-Semitism….
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