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Opinions

Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

Many Reason to Back Obama, Following Hillary's Defeat

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Deborah E. Lipstadt

I am one of those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling. I was a Hillary supporter. I did not support Sen. Clinton because she was a woman, but because I liked her policies and record. But, as is often the case in life, my hopes were not to be. Once that became clear, I sat on the sidelines, watching...

Editorials

Warning Fires in Acre

The violence between Jews and Arabs in the city of Acre during and following Yom Kippur has disturbed Israelis and left them wondering about more than the future of that city. That Acre would be racked by rioting is deeply ironic. The northern Israeli city was known as a place where the mixed population of Jews and Arabs were able...

Editorials

Derail Durban Rerun

The 2001 United Nations Conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, was a turning point in the rise of an international campaign to vilify Israel. Most of the civilized world was shocked at the crude anti-Semitism that set the tone for that gathering of non-governmental organizations and other activist groups. But, in the years since that debacle, we have seen...

Kvetch 'N Kvell

Letters week of Oct. 16, 2008

Palin Should Not Have Been Invited to Iran Rally I read Jonathan Tobin's column on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York with great interest and, for the most part, agreed with him -- except for his comments about the rally (A Matter of Opinion: "Ahmadinejad Isn't Too Impressed," Oct. 2). The Republicans could have sent any one of...

Columns

It's the Truth! Advertisements Expose Facts About Obama

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Matthew Brooks

Recently, columnist Douglas Bloomfield wrote a denunciation of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's critics (Opinions: "Don't Fall for the Extreme Anti-Obama Smear Campaign," Oct. 2) that can only be described as a confused diatribe. There is only one point on which we agree: "[Sen. John] McCain has a strong pro-Israel record, the aura of a war hero, [and] close...