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Slings and arrows      
The essay by Winchester Thurston junior Jesse Lieberfeld, which decries Judaism as a once-wonderful religion while lopsidedly trashing Israel as the oppressor in its standoff with the Palestinians,...
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Haredi should act      
(Editor’s note: Since the publication of this editorial, the Chronicle has become aware of a Jan. 5 letter by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party in Israel, t...
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Lew was a wise choice      
We’re under no illusions about President Barack Obama’s appointment of Jacob “Jack” Lew to be the next White House Chief of Staff. Lew, 56, is an Orthodox Jew, a voting bloc that trends conservati...
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A good year for energy independence      
Looking back, 2011 is shaping up to be a good year for energy independence — and consequently a bad year for the enemies of Israel and the United States. NPR reported last week that for the first ...
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Religious conflict getting out of hand      
Here’s another example of how attacks in Israel by Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews on women’s rights (and safety) are getting bizarrely out of hand: Not even little girls are safe. The Israeli media ...
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An uncomfortable question      
Can Jews be terrorists? Apparently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t think so; at least, not last week when, in response to recent attacks on Israeli soldiers by settlers on the We...
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Shelley’s words apply to today’s ‘Arab Spring’  
JERUSALEM — The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley surely did not have the Arab world in mind when he penned the concluding verse of his “Ode to the West,” which reads: “If winter comes, can spring ...
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Campaign against campus anti-Semitism is making gains
Just over a year ago, the Jewish community won an important victory against campus anti-Semitism. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) agreed, for only the second time, ...
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Israel’s ’74 pact with Syria shows we can deal with Iran  
WASHINGTON — In 1974, Israel struck a security deal with Syria that is still in effect today.  The West should seek to do the same with Iran in 2012. When the subject of diplomacy with Iran comes ...
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Message to my people: We are all in this together
“In 50 years, Israel will be like Iran,” an Israeli friend wrote to me when she forwarded the video of 8-year-old Naama Margolese and the harassment she’s endured at the hands of some Haredi Jews i...
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A time for truth: Why we need another Durban conference
WASHINGTON — It is time for another Durban Conference. No, I’m not asking for a repeat of the U.N.-sponsored festival of Jew-hatred that took place in South Africa in 2001. The last thing we nee...
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Fight with Haredi a civil war no one wants
I saw the recent photos of ultra-Orthodox Jews sending their children to a demonstration wearing yellow stars. We all saw those photos. I opened the New York Times with a silent prayer: “God, pleas...
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Haredim who desecrate Shoa have no place in civilized society  
NEW YORK — The abhorrent rally in Jerusalem’s Shabbat Square on Dec. 31, 2011, featuring Haredim wearing yellow stars and simulated concentration camp uniforms brings to mind Walt Kelly’s observati...
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Haredi Jews pose serious challenges for Israelis  
by Jay Bushinsky
1 month ago | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — In Israel they are known as people who are “in awe” of the Holy One Blessed Be He.  The Hebrew name for that category of ultra-Orthodox Jews is Haredim.  Most of them live in homogeneo...
Religious conflict getting out of hand      
1 month ago | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Here’s another example of how attacks in Israel by Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews on women’s rights (and safety) are getting bizarrely out of hand: Not even little girls are safe. The Israeli media ...
What Hitchens and Havel shared — Chomsky’s wrath  
by Seth J. Frantzman
Guest Columnist
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JERUSALEM — Christopher Hitchens, the acerbic critic, and Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, had one odd thing in common — besides passing away in the same week. They both ran afoul of Noam Chomsk...
Obama’s smart red lines on Iran  
by Joel Rubin
1 month ago | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The warmongers are back, and this time they’re training their gun sights on Iran. Just check out the Republican presidential debates, where almost all of the candidates cavalierly cal...
Why should we care about our candidates’ religious views?  
by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Guest Columnist
1 month ago | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES — As the Presidential race progresses, once again the role of religion in politics has re-emerged as a common tension that cannot be dismissed. American Jews have often feared bringing...
An uncomfortable question      
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Can Jews be terrorists? Apparently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t think so; at least, not last week when, in response to recent attacks on Israeli soldiers by settlers on the We...
Mind the gap between Orthodox and other Jews
by Gary Rosenblatt
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NEW YORK — When journalist Peter Beinart talks about the growing alienation between young American Jews and Israel, and with their Jewish practice, he is quick to point out that he isn’t referring ...
Genocide law has necessarily evolved since Holocaust  
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
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NEW YORK — On Dec. 11, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 96(I), which declared genocide, defined as “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups,” to be “a ...
Shades of Rosa Parks    
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More than half a century after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala. — a defiant gesture that sparked the American Civil Rights Movement — Israel, sadly enough,...
Obama and the do-something Congress  
by Abby Wisse Schachter
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President Obama has made it clear; he wants to channel Harry Truman and run for reelection against a do-nothing Congress.    Only trouble is that Congress doesn’t want to oblige, and that includes...
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