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Opinion The Conference’s Bad Call
More than half a century ago, the heads of a dozen national Jewish organizations formed a loose forum to approach the federal government as a unified American Jewish voice on Israel and the Middle East. The initiative initially came from the Eisenhower administration, which hoped — in vain, it turned out — to minimize the…
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Opinion Getting Beyond Bias
No doubt by now you’ve seen — or at least heard of — the video starring comedienne Sarah Silverman, in which she employs her trademark bawdy language and edgy humor on behalf of her favorite presidential candidate. That would be Senator Barack Obama or, as Silverman says, the “goodest person we’ve ever had as a…
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Opinion A Crisis Foreseen
A current of astonishment has been rippling through the American consciousness over the past few weeks, since our simmering mortgage crisis suddenly erupted into a full-fledged, category-5 worldwide economic calamity. For years, the drama has been unfolding before our uncomprehending eyes, from the first drop in home sales in 2005 through the cascading foreclosures and…
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Opinion Return to Durban
Over the past year, citizens around the globe have joined hands in a series of events celebrating the 60th anniversary of a historic milestone, the signing in December 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The treaty spelled out for the first time in history an agreed international standard by which governments may be…
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Opinion Who’s Sorry Now?
The seasons of the Jewish calendar have a way of surprising us, year after year, with their seeming relevance to life around us. Sometimes, though, the holidays have a bluntness that goes beyond poetry. It was in September 1998, on the eve of Yom Kippur, that Russia’s economy followed Thailand’s into meltdown and threatened global…
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Opinion Ehud Olmert’s Parting Words Dared To Offer Painful Truth
It is a rule of thumb in democracies that lame duck leaders should steer clear of bold new initiatives and sharp turns of policy. They’re supposed to sit tight until their elected successors can settle in and take the wheel. A decent respect for the opinions of the electorate demands that the voters’ decisions be…
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Opinion Preaching Politics
It is tempting to shrug off the campaign known as Pulpit Freedom Sunday as a futile attempt to change settled constitutional law. After all, among the thousands upon thousands of preachers who took to the pulpit across America on the final Sunday of September — and thousands of other clergy who addressed their congregations at…
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Opinion Taking Back the Street
For all its malodorous air of refueling a getaway car, the upcoming federal bailout of Wall Street is a lifesaving emergency operation, and it must go forward. It could become a fat giveaway to the rich, as progressives rightly fear, but it doesn’t have to be. Handled properly, the emergency measures will douse the fire…
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