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Center Field: Group pride guarantees individual freedom

In one of the summer's first blockbuster comedies, You Don't Mess With the Zohan , Adam Sandler plays an Israeli commando who finds love and leisure in New York.  A kind of Munich meets West Side Story , spiced with more than a touch of madcap Mel ...

A Link in the Chain: Israel not reaching its potential

Israel is ranked 38th in the world according to the Economist's Quality of Life Index ; and 23rd according to the 2007/2008 UN Human Development Index . For some countries that might be enough but it's not enough for Israel. We face the gr...

Inside the Middle East: Is America washed up in the Middle East?

Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) is running a pile-on over this Fourth of July question: Has the American era in the Middle East ended? It's in response to the arguments of Richard Haass, Fareed Zakaria, and others, that America just doesn't have th...

Koch's Comments: On gay adoption and race relations

Republican presidential candidate John McCain opposes adoptions by gay parents. Last week in an interview with The New York Times he stated, "I think that we've proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don't believe i...

In the Trenches: An impossible dream?

After 9/11, I wrote what I called "The Missing Speech." It was my imagined call from the Oval Office to confront our ever-growing - and increasingly dangerous - dependence on oil from hostile nations. As New York Times columnist T...

A Point of View: ADL at 95: Battling old hatreds in new forms

As the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Defamation League approaches on July 10th, I can't help but think that its founder, Sigmund Livingston, probably would have wished we had not reached this milestone. After all, when you create an organizat...

Double Standard Watch: Demeaning Jewish victims of terrorism

Following the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday which killed at least 3 Israelis and injured approximately 50 others, discredited academic Norman Finkelstein sunk to a new low--which is saying something for a man who has trivialized the Holocaust,&...
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