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Opinion Generation Gap
There was a time not long ago when the “generation gap” in American politics implied that young people didn’t know or care enough about what was best for the country, and as a result, didn’t vote or participate meaningfully in civic life. Now, when it comes to the ongoing struggle for health care reform, the…
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Opinion The New Fatah
Al-Fatah, the Palestinians’ nominal ruling party, presented Israel with both a gift and a challenge on August 12 as it wrapped up its international party congress in Bethlehem. It had been 20 years since the last congress. Party leaders were touting this one, in the face of near-universal skepticism, as a transformative moment in Palestinian…
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Opinion The Health Care Bullies
The disgrace that is America’s health care system, with its millions of uninsured, runaway costs and arbitrary, profit-driven decision-making, has finally met its match in the disgrace that is America’s health care debate. Since Congress adjourned for its summer recess, and lawmakers dispersed to hear from voters, Americans have witnessed scene after scene of public…
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Opinion Save Sudan
The green banners have draped the walls of Jewish centers and synagogues for years now, a public sign of the sympathy and responsibility so many American Jews share for the suffering people of Darfur. If there is a hell on earth, surely it is that barren region of western Sudan, where more than 3,300 villages…
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Opinion Giving Life
Of all the repugnant images of Jews accompanying the recent arrests of rabbis and others accused of money laundering and public corruption, none was as repellent as the charges against Levy Izhak Rosenbaum for trafficking in human organs. Worse, federal authorities alleged, his business of buying and selling body parts had gone on for a…
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Opinion Norway and the Holocaust
Norway is honoring the 150th anniversary of the birth of novelist and poet Knut Hamsun, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920. So acclaimed was Hamsun’s work that Isaac Bashevis Singer declared that “the whole modern school of fiction in the 20th century stems from Hamsun.” But in his later years — he…
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Opinion Who Is a Convert?
The biblical Ruth is lucky she isn’t converting to Judaism in 2009. If she ever wants to live in Israel, that is. Her moving, lyrical story of devotion to her mother-in-law and embrace of Jewish values has long stood as a potent symbol of the loving outsider who wishes to come in, and is lauded…
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Opinion No Excuses Left on EFCA
Now that a new owner has been awarded the challenge of running Agriprocessors, once the nation’s largest kosher meat producer, there’s reason to hope that a new attitude toward workers will prevail. It cannot come a moment too soon in an industry that has become synonymous with exploitation and unethical behavior. The trouble at Agriprocessors…
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