Leonard Fein
By Leonard Fein
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Opinion Getting Our Learn On
Time out: With just weeks to go before the fateful election, which will at last put an (upside down?) exclamation point to the end of a campaign that has tested our capacity for sheer endurance, it is time (and then some) for a brief recess. Two catalogs arrived in the mail last week — one…
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Opinion Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
In a debate the other night at the annual meeting of Cleveland’s Jewish Community Relations Council, Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe’s well-spoken conservative columnist, remarked that “Since 9/11, there’s been no 9/11.” That, he argued, is evidence that President Bush is doing a good job in defending the nation against terrorism and deserves our support…
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Opinion Sharon: Pathetic, Heroic, Villainous
W ill the real Ariel Sharon please stand up? Probably not. Indeed, it’s entirely possible that Sharon does not know which of his personae is the “real” one. There’s the pathetic Sharon, and the heroic Sharon, and the villainous Sharon — and just now, they seem to be in terminal competition with one another. The…
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Opinion ‘Pro-Israel’? Hardly.
However the sordid facts play out in the current FBI investigation of alleged spying on Israel’s behalf by a senior Pentagon analyst, they raise a raft of nettlesome questions — and memories. Recall, for example, that the heart of Jonathan Pollard’s self-justification was that he passed on to Israel information regarding Iraq’s evolving capabilities for…
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Opinion The Sinking Ship And a Swift Boat
Can farce be brilliant? If so, the Bush campaign’s current production merits rave reviews. Act One: A United States senator who, during his 20 years in office, has inspired just about no one manages to win the Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency. His lackluster record is a burden relieved by only two chunks of…
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Opinion When Time Isn’t on Israel’s Side
Some 20 years ago, Ehud Olmert — now deputy prime minister of Israel, recently mayor of Jerusalem, back then a rising star in Israel’s right-wing firmament — was among the principal speakers at a United Jewish Appeal event in Silverado, a lovely retreat center in northern California. One day, the two of us took a…
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Opinion Loathe the One You’re With
Remember the mood just six or eight months ago? President Bush seemed like a sure winner in his bid for re-election. Howard Dean was all the rage, with his unprecedented and extraordinarily successful fund raising via the Internet and his blunt challenge to the incumbent — but hardly anyone thought that in a Dean-Bush competition,…
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Opinion Teaching Courage
Colman Genn died last week at the age of 68. The New York Times carried a long obituary, which he earned the hard way, but it missed some of the really big stuff. Cole was best known because back in the late 1980s, when he was superintendent of Community School Board 27 in Queens, N.Y.,…
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