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  • Wednesday, April 21, 2010

    Condemn His Report, But Welcome Goldstone

    I was horrified to hear that there were South African Jews objecting to Judge Richard Goldstone attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah. Blocking a fellow Jew, let alone a grandfather, from a family’s religious celebration because of his opinions on Israel is disgraceful. I recall once that the ...

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  • Monday, April 12, 2010

    A Fallible Pope, an Imperfect Church

    The only institution worse at PR than Israel is the Catholic Church. Never in my life have I seen such a formidable world power handle a crisis more catastrophically than how the Vatican is handling the current scandal of pedophile priests. And the sad thing is that the weakening of the Church ...

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  • Friday, April 02, 2010

    A Brief Passover Message from Rabbi Shmuley

    Do people want to be free? Bush said yes, and launched the Iraq war. But evidence would seem to be the opposite. Eric Rromm wrote in his book ‘Escape from Freedom’ that people want others to make choices for them. Studies show that the greater the variety, say in a grocery store, the ...

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  • Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    Why America Has No Chief Rabbi

    In my eleven years living in England I often observed, as did many others, that Anglo-Jewry lacked the vibrancy and innovation characteristic of American Judaism. The absence of an electrifying sense of Jewishness and communal dynamism was a subject much discussed among the Anglo-Jewish ...

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  • Monday, March 08, 2010

    When Court Jews Defend Moral Cowards

    Of late it’s been a tough time for those working to prevent genocide. Darfur has been off the world’s radar screen for months. Then there’s the poor Armenians. It wasn’t enough that 1.5 million were murdered in a genocide perpetrated by the Ottomon Turks during the First World War. Turns ...

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