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Opinion On Iran, a Win-Win
The conventional wisdom is that the latest meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even if more cordial and productive than their eight prior exchanges, highlighted the stark differences between the two leaders as their nations face the threat of a nuclear Iran. And this gulf, so some urge us to believe,…
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Opinion No Esther, No Purim
One of the latest skirmishes in Israel’s gender battles is over an advertisement from a popular store in Beit Shemesh in which the faces of girls modeling Purim costumes were blurred. Turns out that a Haredi newspaper blotted out the faces without the store’s knowledge, “out of respect to our readers,” was the official line….
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Opinion What War on Religion?
The “war on religion” is back, making its quadrennial appearance on the American political stage. The actors are different this time — or, in the case of Mitt Romney, same man, new script. Rick Santorum’s rhetoric may be more strident than is customary, and Newt Gingrich has lifted the level of disconnect between word and…
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Opinion Defending Contraception
The controversy over the Obama administration’s proposals to include contraception in insurance coverage required by the new health care law has been portrayed as an issue of religious rights. And women’s rights. And reproductive rights. And political rights. Instead, it ought to be viewed as a public health imperative. The argument forwarded by the Catholic…
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Opinion In the Line of Duty
The day before she died, journalist Marie Colvin told CNN how dangerous it was to try to do her job, to simply survive, amid the shelling and violence in Homs, Syria, the besieged center of resistance to President Bashar al-Assad’s bloody regime. The next day, Colvin, the veteran foreign correspondent for London’s The Sunday Times…
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Opinion The Pension Promise
Quick question: When is a Jewish federation like a church? Answer: When it doesn’t have to fully protect its employees’ pensions. In this flip exchange lies a serious issue. As our Nathan Guttman has reported, Jewish social service groups, along with other nonprofits seeking to cut pension costs, are using a controversial tax loophole to…
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Opinion Rewarding Storytelling
The extraordinary success of Opinion Editor Gal Beckerman’s book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry,” isn’t simply a matter of wonderful things happening to a really nice guy. (And he is a really nice guy. He edits my editorials. I know.) Gal’s achievement — winner of…
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Opinion Listening to Women
Too many of the images of women in Israel these days are disturbing — a girl spat on because of her dress, an esteemed scientist denied the stage, a commuter forced to the back of the bus. But that’s an incomplete narrative in a nation where women hold leading roles in politics, business, the judiciary,…
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