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Opinion Gutman in Trouble for Diagnosing Disease
I think it’s time we faced up to the hard truth about Louis Pasteur. The famed 19th century French scientist was a rank bigot. He’s been getting a free ride for too long, and it’s got to stop. The evidence is shocking but undeniable. It seems that while Pasteur was supposedly devoting his career to…
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Israel News Republicans Take Turns Bashing Obama
Republican presidential candidates took turns bashing President Obama’s record on Israel, as they made their pitch to Jewish Republican voters less than a month before the primary season kicks off. The message delivered to an audience of Jewish supporters by six of the Republican hopefuls (Ron Paul was not invited to the forum) in a…
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Israel News Panetta and Clinton Take Aim at Israel
Just as the troubled relationship between the Obama administration and the government of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to be getting on track, remarks by top American officials have made it clear that frustration still runs deep in Washington over Israel’s policies. Over the course of just a few days, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham…
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Life What Hillary Got Right About Israel
Hillary Clinton has made some important people in Israel angry. But she has made a whole bunch of other people, especially women, really happy. I, for one, am grateful to Clinton. I’m referring, of course, to her now viral comments that she is “worried” about Israel democracy, and about the status of women. Both issues…
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Israel News White House Draws Fire for Speeches
Controversial speeches by administration officials have given President Obama’s opponents space to hit back just a week after he touted his strong support cooperation with Israel while courting Jewish donors in New York. Following comments critical of Israel’s stance towards the Palestinians by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and U.S. ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman,…
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Culture Secrets of Ben-Gurion’s Leadership
Ben-Gurion: A Political Life By Shimon Peres and David Landau Schocken, 240 pages, $25.95 The most revealing conversation that Shimon Peres ever had with his mentor, David Ben-Gurion, was perhaps his first. Peres was a young activist in Ha’Noar Ha’Oved, the Labor Zionist youth movement, when he asked the powerful and charismatic chairman of the…
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Israel News Israeli Journalists Fear New Restrictions
One of Israel’s proudest claims is that it boasts the only truly free press in the Middle East. But civil rights activists and journalists, including some of the country’s top names, say this could soon become a thing of the past. On November 20, some 500 journalists from competing media outlets attended what was billed…
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Opinion Only Nice Words for Obama
You wouldn’t expect a host to say anything bad about his guest of honor. But American Council for World Jewry chairman Jack Rosen was especially gracious about the message delivered by President Obama at a fundraiser held at Rosen’s Manhattan home. “He made, I think, a solid case for having stood with Israel on the…
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