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ADL Disappoints on “Ground Zero Mosque” Issue

ADL Disappoints on “Ground Zero Mosque” Issue

The manufactured controversy over what has ludicrously come to be called the “Ground Zero Mosque” has a lot of depressing aspects. But easily the most surprising and, for me, upsetting development is that the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish...

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The Great Paradox: Questioning American Support for Israel

The Great Paradox: Questioning American Support for Israel

Vice-President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Israel to jump-start peace talks seemed like good news, until he was met with an announcement from Israel’s Interior Ministry that it had authorized the construction of another 1,600 homes in occupied...

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Pawns of History?

Pawns of History?

The question of Jewish liberalism Why Are Jews Liberals?, by Norman Podhoretz, Doubleday, 2009. $27, 295 pp. The story of Norman Podhoretz is as...

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