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Opinion What Goldstone Reveals
The 575-page report presented last September to the U.N. Human Rights Council is now so famous that it is routinely referred to by one word: Goldstone. As in, Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist who headed the four-person mission that concluded there was strong evidence that Israel violated international law and may have committed war…
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Opinion Chaim Potok Is No Longer With Us, but His Lessons Remain
On February 17, Chaim Potok, the novelist, scholar, painter and playwright whom I was privileged to call a dear friend, would have turned 80 years old. In the spring of 2002, he and I sat down for a series of interviews in the book-lined library of his home near Philadelphia. My Tuesdays with Chaim, we…
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Opinion Defending Bronner
Too close to home. That was the reason given by the public editor of The New York Times for his assertion that the Times bureau chief in Jerusalem should be reassigned because his son decided to join the Israel Defense Forces. This is close to home for us, too. After all, this dispute pokes at…
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Opinion Labor Pains
The nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board appears to be history. In a 52-33 vote on February 9, Senate Democrats failed to muster the 60 votes needed to bring this long-awaited name to the floor for approval. A union lawyer who worked on President Obama’s transition team, Becker was opposed even…
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Opinion Resist Segregation
The need to restrain the burgeoning power of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel grows ever more urgent. The latest flashpoint is public transportation. For several years, on an increasing number of public buses, women have been expected not only to cover their arms and legs, but also to board and sit separately from men, in the…
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Opinion A Stronger Military
Finally, nearly 16 years after the foolhardy “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was enacted by Congress, the nation’s top two defense officials have called for an end to the pretense that somehow America’s military is better off if gay and lesbian service members keep their identities a secret. “No matter how I look at the…
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Opinion To Print, or Not To Print?
This week, the Forward reprints an offensive cartoon of Naomi Chazan accompanying a story about attacks on the New Israel Fund, of which she is president. But we chose not to reproduce any of the Danish cartoons satirizing the prophet Muhammad and offensive to many Muslims — and the subject of a book reviewed by…
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Opinion We Are What We Eat
Sometimes, simply promising to follow the law of the land is a welcome step forward. In that spirit, the new ethical guidelines issued by the Rabbinical Council of America regarding kosher food production must be applauded, even with the understanding of what they are not. They are not a new ethical manifesto along the lines…
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