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Opinion The Big Tent
As the first-ever convening of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Jews got underway in California at the tail end of June, conference funder and philanthropist Lynn Schusterman threw down the gauntlet — in her Tulsa, Oklahoma way, of course. She’s too polite and Southern to pick a real physical fight, but her words were plenty…
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Opinion Fade to Irrelevance
All year, the Forward is publishing a series entitled “Imagining Two States for Two Peoples,” using news stories, opinion columns, essays and detailed maps to engage our readers in the pressing challenge of securing Israel’s future while acknowledging Palestinian national aspirations. Another installment appears on the Forum page this week. Since advocating for a “two-state…
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Opinion The Haredi Challenge
The State of Israel is faced with so many existential challenges, from within and without, that it is foolhardy to privilege one above another, especially from afar. But the continued, passionate defiance of secular law and government authority by ultra-Orthodox Jews is quickly posing a serious threat to the very nature of Israeli democracy. In…
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Opinion Sentencing Rubashkin
As much as this newspaper has worked to highlight the abuses at the kosher meat company once owned by the Rubashkin family, the sentencing of Sholom Rubashkin to 27 years in prison for bank fraud is troubling. The lengthy sentence with no chance of parole, handed down in federal court on June 22, is too…
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Opinion The Flotilla Probe
Whatever the rest of the world might have thought, the State Department gave a cautious thumbs-up to Israel’s June 13 announcement of an inquiry into the deadly raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara. Department spokesman Philip Crowley called the probe “an important step forward” toward the “transparent, impartial and credible” inquiry demanded by the…
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Opinion After Yoffie
Leaders of the Union for Reform Judaism have a tall order to fill as they seek a successor to their president, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, who has announced plans to retire in two years. Nominally, they’ll be looking for someone to helm a confederation of some 900 synagogues. In practice, the job is much bigger. The…
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Opinion Freeing Gilad Shalit
Very soon, it will be four years since the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on June 25, 2006, a grim, frustrating anniversary that sends contradictory messages to the head and the heart. If there were easy answers here, they would have been found years ago; instead, it is possible that the recent botched raid…
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Opinion Fighting Halachically?
Is it kosher to box? Thanks to Yuri “Lion of Zion” Foreman and Dmitriy “Star of David” Salita, this is no esoteric question. After all, Foreman just lasted nine rounds against Miguel Cotto in Yankee Stadium, a match he lost in a technical knockout but fought through obvious pain and with such ferocity that he…
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