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Opinion Other People’s Eggs
They come to America with altruistic intentions, to help the Jewish people reproduce and, not incidentally, to receive compensation for the enormous risk they take with their bodies. But as Ayelet Bechar shows in her front-page story this week, the growing incidence of young Israeli Jewish women becoming egg donors for infertile American Jewish couples…
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Opinion Meltdown
This moment is one of those turning points in history that the old will describe to their grandchildren and that historians will still be debating a century from now. We are witnessing, it appears, the unraveling of America’s economic system, and perhaps the world’s. What follows will not be what was. Perhaps the economy will…
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Opinion Beginning at Midpoint
It is a curiosity of Jewish tradition that Rosh Hashanah, the New Year holiday, which begins at sundown on September 29, is not actually the start of the traditional calendar year. That comes in the spring, two weeks before Passover, on the first of the lunar month of Nisan, which the Bible calls the first…
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Opinion The Olmert Scandals
Israelis drew a collective gasp of surprise September 7, when the police formally recommended that Ehud Olmert be indicted on corruption charges. The surprise was not that their prime minister was facing accusations of financial impropriety and abuse of power. What caught many Israelis off guard was the flimsiness of the charges. Olmert had suffered…
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Opinion Peacemaker
The cause of intergroup understanding lost a courageous champion September 10 with the death in Chicago of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, head of The Mosque Cares organization and the most widely respected leader of America’s black Muslims. Mohammed was born in Detroit in 1933, the seventh child of Elijah Muhammad, founder of the black separatist…
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Opinion Preaching Abstinence
In a rare moment of consensus and civility in mid-campaign, Democratic and Republican leaders concurred last week that public debate over the candidates’ family troubles — specifically the pregnant, unwed 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin — is “off-limits,” in Barack Obama’s words. Families, even public families, should be left to sort…
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Opinion Elul, Prep Time
Elul, the Jewish lunar month that began September 1, is a mysterious, emotionally fraught time in the ritual year. It is an annual event that has its own distinct message and special rituals. Elul’s meaning derives from proximity: It is the month leading up to the New Year, Rosh Hashanah, which in turn kicks off…
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Opinion The Decision in Denver
America’s political conventions may not be the pivotal moments of decision that they once were, but for all their staged predictability, they are still capable of making history. So it was in Denver on August 27, 2008, when the Democratic Party formally designated Barack Obama as its candidate for president. Obama promised change when he…
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