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… adherence to the First Amendment, favor some censorship. Deep down, clearly everyone wants to censor something. I have Jewish friends who support freedom of expression for everyone—except for Nazis who want to march through Jewish neighborhoods like Skokie, Illinois. I have Afri...

…s. Israel, the “Jew Among Nations,” was being treated by many on the hard left and on the Islamic right, in the way the Jewish people had been treated for millennia. This change took me by surprise. In the conclusion to my 1991 book, Chutzpah, I predicted the end of mainstream,...

… my activist judge and eagerly pursued my assigned task of searching for injustices. I recall telling Bazelon, who was Jewish but not well educated in Jewish religion tradition, that the Torah commands not merely that we be just, or even that we do justice, but rather that we ac...

…lestinian or anti-Palestinian. In fact, I believe that his actions have not been motivated by any antagonism toward the Jewish state. He simply does not understand the dynamics of Middle East negotiation. I am disappointed in him not because I support Israel (which I do), but bec...

…ing in east Jerusalem. Indeed, many Israeli politicians, including most of the current government, believe in expanding Jewish settlement on the West Bank—a policy interpreted by the Palestinians as intended ultimately to squeeze them out of their homeland. Even the most moderate...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 traditional Jewish approach to learning and ritual—doubt all you want, but do! My brother and I started that way, but ultimately our doubts carried over into action--or more precisely inaction. We stopped observing in our mid 20s. My mother couldn't understand...

at which point their country would lose its Jewish majority and its identity as a refuge for the Jewish people

…d Labor. Most importantly, when he’d been Agriculture Minister under Begin, he was the driving force in plans to expand Jewish settlement on the West Bank, including “blocs” placed around the major Palestinian towns and cities for the first time since 1967. I had a responsibilit...

… volunteered to invest $20 million. New York was subsequently sold to another wealthy investor.) Were the International Jewish conspiracy to actually exist, it might be here in his dining room (while not everybody in his circle is Jewish, an obvious “think Yiddish” point of view...

…ain longer around to reflect on Rogers’s committed itself to the establishment version of events. Rabin, the great of a Jewish homeland in the Israeli warrior-turned-politician who uncultivated area of the eastern agreed to make peace with Arafat, Mediterranean known as Palestine...

…when those in power used unimaginably punitive tools: like expulsion, or forced starvation. “Even, as we know well as a Jewish people, extermination.” I glanced at Yitzhak and at Dan. Both of them looked like I felt: in no doubt the professor was right, yet also aware that, in t...

… for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of two states for two peoples and the right of the Jewish and Palestinian peoples to self-determination, without prejudice to the rights of all citizens and minority groups. Recall, in this context, U.N. General...

…1452. Event address: 2 East 61st St., New York. Event web address: ujafedny.org. Tags: Luncheon Association. EXPAND Jewish Enrichment Center PRINT | MAP | TWEET 2011 Grand Reception 5:30 pm. VIP reception, cocktails, dinner and presentation. Speaker(s): President George H.W...

…d by those who vote for a living. We Are Not Coming Back Please take a moment to digest this provocative article by a Jewish Rabbi from Teaneck , N.J. It is far and away the most succinct and thoughtful explanation of how our nation is changing. The article appeared in The Is...

strengthening some of the Jewish State's sworn enemies. The Gulf kingdom of Qatar has done more than simply buy into the Rawabi paradigm: It's also funding two-thirds of the project, to the tune of over $600 million. This is enough money to single-handedly finance the Fatah-domi...