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Opinion Reversal of Fortune
President Obama’s first White House sit-down with Jewish communal leaders has gotten tongues wagging about whom he chooses as friends and what ulterior motives might lurk behind his hospitality. It seems that the list of 14 organizations represented at the July 13 meeting had a more liberal cast than the invitation lists that used to…
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Opinion The NAACP at 100
The inauguration of our first president of African descent was a turning point in this nation’s struggle against racism, but it was not the end of the struggle. Black people still suffer more poverty than their white neighbors, poorer education, worse health and shorter life expectancy. There are still fears and divisions among us and…
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Opinion Let Them Serve
This is a tale of two militaries. The year is 1993. A new American president, untested by military service of his own, stumbles into a messy public spat with military brass over treatment of gay and lesbian service members. Candidate Bill Clinton had promised to allow citizens to serve in the military regardless of sexual…
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Opinion Lessons Learned?
Now that Bernard Madoff has been sent to jail for the rest of his life, and then some, it is tempting to put his sordid story behind us, to leave the follow-up for the business pages and those tracking who else will be caught in his web of deceit. Tempting, but unwise, because this scandal…
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Opinion First, Do No Harm
Yoram Blachar is president of the Israel Medical Association, a pediatric nephrologist with a quiet manner who practices at the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot. In 2007, he beat out two other candidates to become president of the World Medical Association, an umbrella organization representing 9 million physicians in 84 countries with a mandate to define…
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Opinion Prizes and Partners
Forgive us for smiling. The past few weeks have brought exciting awards and new purpose to the Forward, confirming the quality of our work and helping to craft the future. At a time when the economy is struggling and journalism is stumbling through a complete rewrite, our good news is very welcome. First, in Chicago…
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Opinion The Legacy of June 12
Back on June 12, 2006, Iranian activists took to the streets of Tehran in a peaceful protest to demand changes in the laws that discriminate against women. The protest was dispersed violently, and more than 70 people were arrested. In the years since, women activists designated that date — June 12 — as their day…
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Opinion Some of His Best Friends…
It comes as no surprise that Richard Nixon had an issue with Jews, but the latest disclosures are too delicious to ignore. Buried within the 150 hours of tape and 30,000 pages of documents just made public by the Nixon Presidential Library is this February 21, 1973 phone conversation the former president had with the…
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