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Opinion Peace With Syria
Syria’s maybe yes, maybe no attitude toward peace with Israel is enough to give even experienced Middle East diplomats a case of whiplash. One day Syrian President Bashar Assad is hosting U.S. special envoy George Mitchell in Damascus and saluting America’s efforts to broker a peace treaty. Barely two days later, Assad is embracing Iranian…
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Opinion Chilling and Routine
The self-immolation of former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, fired October 1 after delivering a lengthy anti-Semitic rant during a radio interview, offers a depressing reminder of how terribly routine the public maligning of Jews has become in 21st-century America. Perhaps it should not shock us that an educated individual in this day and age can…
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Opinion George Soros’s Money
J Street’s action regarding the funding it received from controversial billionaire George Soros is inexcusable. After years of claiming that he had not raised so much as a dime from Soros, J Street’s president, Jeremy Ben-Ami, had to ‘fess up — only after the Washington Times, not exactly a friendly newspaper, pointed out that the…
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Opinion Modern-day Exodus
For anyone involved in the Soviet Jewry movement — from the Russians trapped behind the Iron Curtain to the ordinary Jews who took up their cause — our Gal Beckerman’s triumphant new book, “When They Comes For Us, We’ll Be Gone,” is a stirring reminder of the power of peoplehood. “Peoplehood” has become a word…
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Opinion Abbas Extends a Hand
President Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority have opened a new front in the Middle East conflict: a charm offensive. One can wonder why it has taken so long, yet welcome the move just the same. Truth is, American Jewish leaders have long been in some sort of dialogue with Palestinian officials. “I met with…
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Opinion Guests in our Sukkah
When Daniel Treiman, the Forward’s opinion editor, asked for a leave of absence for a couple of months this fall, we decided to mix things up on our Forum page. In a season when it’s traditional to invite guests into a sukkah, why not invite guests to edit our pages? So starting today, an illustrious…
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Opinion Lessons from Haiti
Lubert Jean-Pierre is a 48-year-old Haitian father of six who used to sell charcoal in a makeshift roadside stand before the earthquake. At about 4:30 in the afternoon on January 12, he had gone to a small prayer meeting at a church in his neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. At 4:53, the building began to shake, the…
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Opinion The Cost of Belonging
American Jews love to complain about how expensive it is to be Jewish, as if there were no choice in the matter, as if there were only costs associated with Jewish life and nothing on the benefits side of the equation. As if we were the only ones carrying such a burden. We look in…
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