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Op-Ed: Why Jews should care about the rights of Israeli Arabs
Israel's Arab citizens are guaranteed equality under the country's Declaration of Independence, but even the government admits there is still a long way to go to achieve full parity. Helping them get there is a cause worthy rallying around. Read more »
Op-Ed: Rise of Islamist movements casts shadow over Egypt
The Muslim Brotherhood did not initiate the current upheavals in the Middle East, but the Islamist parties in Egypt, as in Tunisia and Libya, have been its chief beneficiaries. Read more »
Op-Ed: When Holocaust analogies run amok
A recent demonstration in which a small group of haredi Orthodox protesters wore yellow stars and dressed as concentration camp prisoners reflects "blatant, in-your-face Holocaust trivialization on a level that until now we have rarely witnessed in Israeli society," the Anti-Defamation League's national director writes. Read more »
Op-Ed: A letter of concern for American democracy
Before the likes of Hillary Clinton and Thomas Friedman criticize Israeli democracy, they should take a hard look at the eroding democratic values in America, writes one American who now lives in Israel. Read more »
Op-Ed: Israel intended no offense with ad campaign
Like any successful campaign, the ads by Israel's government to lure back expatriates were intended to get people talking. However, they certainly were not meant to offend American Jews, writes the chairman of the Knesset's Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs. Read more »
Op-Ed: Security is everyone’s responsibility
Security preparation is everyone’s duty and requires the Jewish community's immediate and continual commitment, writes the co-founder and co-president of the nonprofit Community Security Service, which trains volunteers in professional security techniques at no charge. Read more »
Op-Ed: Plea of Alan Gross’ wife to GA
Judy Gross, the wife of Alan Gross, the Jewish-American contractor serving a 15-year prison sentence in Cuba for “crimes against the state," makes a plea for her husband's freedom in an address to the 2011 General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America in Denver. Read more »
Op-Ed: Return Torah to its place of glory
By bringing Torah back to its place of glory, we will remind ourselves why we care so much about our Jewish future, writes the executive director of an egalitarian yeshiva and independent minyan organization. Read more »
Op-Ed: Population boom? Why 7 billion isn’t enough
Rabbi Simcha Weinstein wonders whether today's post-modern, post-parenting era will heed the biblical injunction to "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the land and subdue it." Read more »
Op-Ed: Christians mostly failed to act in response to Kristallnacht
Most American Christian leaders strongly condemned the Kristallnacht pogrom that the Nazis carried out against Germany's Jews 73 years ago next week, but the words of condemnation were not always accompanied by calls for action, writes the director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. Read more »
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