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After all my prattling last week about Obama’s pro-Israel national security team, he goes and names Samantha Power to an agency review team. (Not that I would classify Power, a respected genocide scholar, as “anti-Israel.” But she has an unfortunate tendency to speak before getting all the facts in – witness her 2002 blathering about […]

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Secular Israelis don’t have a Jewish identity problem like American Jews do, writes Anshel Pfeffer in Ha’aretz. That’s part of what American Jews, like Edgar Bronfman, don’t get about Israel, he writes: While the Jews in America and other communities have been grappling for decades with the question of how to define a Jewish identity […]

Last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai continue to reverberate with fond memories, mourning, questioning and soul-searching. Here’s a round-up of the latest reports and commentaries: At a synagogue in Mumbai, the 2- year old orphan who lost his parents at the Chabad House cries out for them. Chabad’ s pointman in Washington talked to the […]

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