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Clean Underwear Bomber<br> Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle
Clean Underwear Bomber
Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle
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Lugar Backfired
Christopher Weyant, The Hill
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Respect Neighborhood Watch
Like much of America, we’re watching the Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman case in Florida, but we’ll take no position on it before the courts rule. We’re also following a similar case in Baltimore...
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Business opportunity
U.S. Rep. David McKinley may soon look like a soothsayer of sorts. Several months ago, the freshman Republican from Wheeling, W.Va. — fresh from his first visit to Israel, courtesy of AIPAC — disc...
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Pitt’s teachable moment
There have been 50-plus bomb threats at the University of Pittsburgh since February and not a single bomb has been found, let alone gone off. Good thing we live in Pittsburgh and not Israel. There...
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Suspicion in Syria          
One month ago in this space, we warned about getting involved too fast (and too recklessly) in the fighting in Syria. Regardless of what advocates for involvement — Sen. John McCain and Fouad Ajami...
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Freedom, then and now          
At its essence, Passover, which begins at sundown Friday, is all about freedom. It’s not about Moses, who is basically omitted from the hagada. In a way, it isn’t even about God — more like the fr...
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Pay for play          
Should the United States set conditions on the release of funds to the Palestinian Authority, such as the planned $88.6 million release in development funds announced last week? We say yes, but be...
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Menachem Rosensaft
Elan Steinberg defended Jewish rights
NEW YORK — Immediately after Elan Steinberg died early on April 6 at age 59, those who understood the tremendous historical role he played spoke about what he meant to them and to the Jewish commun...
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<i>Daniel Brode</i>
Al-Qaeda’s rise in Syria
The recent wave of suicide bombings in Syria, along with Lebanon’s seizure of a weapons-laden cargo ship intended for Syrian rebels, underscores the infiltration of not only Sunni-jihadist ideolog...
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<i>Joel Rubin</i>
Israeli generals balk at PM’s Iran policy
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is convinced that Iran is on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon. He believes that the Iranians cannot be deterred through diplomacy, and ...
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<i>Cecile Redlich, a 14-year-old girl whose parents were deported from Amiens to their deaths in 1942 and who was herself arrested two years later in Amiens on Jan. 4, 1944, and deported to her death in Auschwitz. (Courtesy of Serge Klarsfeld, CDJC, Paris)</i>
Memorializing in Amiens
For years, I have been going to Amiens, France, to do historical research. The research has focused on the Protestant movement in the city in the 16th and 17th century. Last summer, however, I f...
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Mike Wallace: A dissent
Praise for Mike Wallace as a probing investigative reporter saturated news media immediately after his death April 7 at age 93. Virtually all tributes omitted the fact that when it came to anti-Isr...
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Gary Rosenblatt
Changing the bar, bat mitzva experience
NEW YORK — Did you chant a haftora at your bar or bat mitzva? Do you remember what it was about? Have you chanted any others since then? Rabbi Joy Levitt, executive director of the Jewish Commun...
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Abby Wisse Schachter
Next year in Hebrew
We are between two big moments on the Jewish calendar, Passover and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day). During the Passover seder, we wish for next year in Jerusalem. On Yom Ha’atzmaut, we...
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The case for a West Bank settlement boycott
by Michael Zigmond
Guest Columnist
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(Editor’s note: the following is in response to Gary Rosenblatt’s March 29 column, which criticized Peter Beinart’s call for a boycott of West Bank products.) Imagine that a well-known American...
Suspicion in Syria          
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One month ago in this space, we warned about getting involved too fast (and too recklessly) in the fighting in Syria. Regardless of what advocates for involvement — Sen. John McCain and Fouad Ajami...
Iran negotiations will require patience
by Joel Rubin
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WASHINGTON — Iran is a complex country that defies simple definition.  It possesses a nuclear program increasingly under international scrutiny.  It is regarded by the United States as a state spon...
Freedom, then and now          
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At its essence, Passover, which begins at sundown Friday, is all about freedom. It’s not about Moses, who is basically omitted from the hagada. In a way, it isn’t even about God — more like the fr...
Is Iraq going fundamentalist?
by Daniel Brode
Guest Columnist
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TEL AVIV — As a conservative Muslim nation, Iraq is by and large opposed to Western ideals and movements deemed contrary or heretical to Islam. One Western export, the emo subculture — an American...
Pushing morality, a victim of myopia
by Gary Rosenblatt
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NEW YORK — When I asked a well-known journalist with expertise in the Middle East to review Peter Beinart’s new book, “The Crisis Of Zionism,” he first replied that he’d love to but was crushed wit...
Pay for play          
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Should the United States set conditions on the release of funds to the Palestinian Authority, such as the planned $88.6 million release in development funds announced last week? We say yes, but be...
Bibi warmongers while IDF, Mossad chiefs counsel caution
by Dr. Naftali Kaminski
Guest Columnist
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Watching Netanyahu’s speech at the recent AIPAC conference I recalled something said about Netanyahu long ago: That he was a great orator, but a very small leader. One could argue that no other Is...
The Jewish imperative for child adoption
by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Guest Columnist
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LOS ANGELES — Millions of children fall asleep every night hungry, wearing an unchanged diaper, and with no one to hold them as they cry themselves to sleep. There is perhaps no greater suffering t...
An intriguing idea          
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Last week’s story, which looked at the future of the American synagogue in our “Future of …” series, contained a thought-provoking idea from Rabbi Alex Greenbaum of Beth El Congregation of the Sout...