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Op-Ed: Seeing the world through an Auschwitz lens amounts to Jewish and Israeli PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder is making it difficult for many American Jews and some Israeli hawks to recognize that as ideologically crazy as the Iranian government is, there is zero reason to believe that it would be willing to have Iran bombed into oblivion by U.S. and Israeli nuclear retaliation from a first strike by Iran, writes the editor of Tikkun magazine. Read more »
Op-Ed: Israel has a legal case for striking Iran
Article 51 of the United Nations Charter clearly recognizes a state’s inherent right of self-defense against another state. Thus, Israel has full authority to act unilaterally or collectively in its self-defense, write two officials with the American Center for Law and Justice. Read more »
Op-Ed: In Japan, pride in the Jewish response to tsunami
At the first anniversary of the devastating tsunami in Japan, the rabbi of the Jewish community there revels in the Jewish unity in providing assistance to a people greatly in need. Read more »
Op-Ed: The campaign against JNF is misplaced
In their accusations against JNF, Rabbi Jill Jacobs and her Rabbis for Human Rights-North America is promoting propaganda by using politically motivated, destructive language, writes the CEO of the Jewish National Fund of America. Read more »
Op-Ed: JNF should plant trees, not uproot families
The Jewish National Fund once and for all must end its practice of evicting families, writes the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. Read more »
Op-Ed: On domestic violence front, more work is needed
The Jewish community serves as a model for other religious communities trying to make their faith a resource in addressing domestic violence, but there is still work to be done, write the executive director of Jewish Women International and president-CEO of the Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies. Read more »
Op-Ed: Recalling a Mormon senator who tried to save Anne Frank’s life
When the issue was not saving Anne Frank's soul but saving her life, the most powerful Mormon political figure in America at the time -- Utah Sen. William H. King -- did what he could at a time when too few were willing to do anything at all, writes the director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. Read more »
Op-Ed: Community security is everyone’s responsibility
We can all be vigilant about security and still enjoy everything our synagogues, federations, community centers and other institutions have to offer, writes the Anti-Defamation League’s communal security coordinator. Read more »
A proud Jew
Sean Frazier is the winner of BBYO’s AZA Oratory Contest, the results of which were announced at BBYO’s International Convention 2012, which ended Sunday in Atlanta, Ga. He addressed the prompt: “Am I a Jewish American or American Jew? Jewish Canadian or Canadian Jew? Whenever you live, does your Judaism come before your nationality?” Read more »
The Jewish struggle
Michaela Brown was the winner of BBYO’s BBG Oratory Contest, the results of which were announced at BBYO’s International Convention 2012, which ended Sunday in Atlanta, Ga. She addressed the prompt: “What makes Judaism unique and why is it important to me?” Read more »
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