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What Will It Be: A Palestinian State, or More Foot-Shuffling?

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John Cohn

More than a decade ago, during Benjamin Netanyahu's first term as prime minister, Palestinians threatened to unilaterally declare statehood. Israel resisted, and the idea went into limbo. Negotiations with Netanyahu's successor, Ehud Barak, bogged down, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walked away from Camp David, starting the violence that began the second intifada. In the past year, Palestinians have once...

Columns

A Word by Any Other Name; Once, It Wasn't So Sweet

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Michael Goldfarb

he first time I was called a "Jew" with malicious intent was September 1958 in the playground of Belmont Hills Elementary School in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I was 8 years old, and until that time had been living in New York City, where everyone I encountered was Jewish. Whoever called me a "Jew" didn't accompany the word with a...

Editorials

From Fear to Flight

It would be easy to let the ongoing angst we're experiencing these days paralyze our lives. Mail-bomb packages addressed to Jewish institutions. Unprecedented efforts around the globe to delegitimize Israel. Political campaigns that stoke fear instead of addressing the critical issues facing our country. Last week's foiled plot to explode airborne bombs left us all a bit unnerved. Even if,...

Kvetch 'N Kvell

Letters week of Nov. 4, 2010

Ad Misconstrues Ruling on Matter of Cremation The Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement maintains the position that cremation is a practice contrary to Jewish law and tradition, and therefore should be discouraged. In the event one chooses cremation, a question arises regarding the burial of the ashes. In response to this question, our Committee on Jewish Law and Standards...

Editorials

No Place for Hate/Make Every Vote Count

We know that it's happening with growing intensity at college campuses across the country. But it's especially frightening when it happens so close to home: A Lincoln University tenured professor, Kaukab Siddique, spouting anti-Jewish and anti-Israel venom, calling for the destruction of Israel and promoting Holocaust denial. The professor, who captured national attention with the release of an incendiary video...