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Opinion Listening to the Storm
The devastation visited on Burma on May 6 by the cyclone known as Nargis is too vast for the human mind to comprehend. The official toll at press time was 22,000 dead and 42,000 missing, but the number of deaths is expected to reach above 100,000 when the count is completed. Hundreds of thousands of…
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Opinion A Jewish State: ‘Mazel Tov!’
The day has finally arrived, the day that Jews have awaited with such longing in their hearts — a day for which they have waited 2,000 years. The dream of many generations has become a reality: In the Land of Israel, a Jewish state has been founded. It will be called “The State of Israel.”…
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Opinion Wright and Wrong
Back in the fall of 1995, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, announced that he was quitting his New Jersey synagogue because of the rabbi’s inflammatory rhetoric on Middle East issues. Foxman and his family had been members of the Orthodox congregation for more than 20 years and had deep roots there,…
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Opinion Al Qaeda’s Kindness
Events in the Middle East frequently defy logic, but rarely is a development as unexpected as the recent broadside by Al Qaeda against Iran and its Shi’ite allies for — of all things — spreading the “lie” that Israel was responsible for the September 11 attacks. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy commander of Al Qaeda, made…
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Opinion The Kadish Connection
Americans slept safer in their beds last week after the FBI, in a daring raid on a New Jersey old-age home, nabbed an 84-year-old retiree accused of having spied for Israel a quarter-century ago. The suspect, Ben-Ami Kadish, a former engineer with the U.S. Army, reportedly confessed that he had checked out some 50 to…
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Opinion Diplomacy, Carter-Style
Amateur historians like to say that Jimmy Carter is much better as an ex-president than he was as president. That gets his presidency about right; he’s usually ranked near the bottom, slightly ahead of Millard Fillmore but trailing Herbert Hoover. The assessment, however, is too kind to the Carter ex-presidency. During nearly three decades as…
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Opinion The Legacy of the Ghetto
This week marks the 65th anniversary of a seminal moment in the horror that was the Holocaust: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It was on the first night of Passover in 1943 that a tiny band of Polish Jews, teenagers and young adults, armed mostly with pistols and gasoline bombs, launched a hopeless counterattack against the…
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Opinion Once We Were Strangers
Every year at the first full moon of spring, on the 14th day of the biblical month of Nisan, Jews all around the world gather with their families to re-enact their ancestors’ flight from Egyptian slavery. Passover is the most familiar ritual on the Jewish calendar, bringing together Jews of every stripe, the devout and…
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