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CAMBRIDGE, MA — Peering out the window of one of this town’s many excellent coffeeshops, one could be forgiven for thinking that all is right at Harvard. The ancient pageantry of commencement, conducted this week, still inflects Harvard Square as…
read moreJewish college students have changed dramatically since we were students. * Half have one parent who was not Jewish by birth.* Most identify with being Jewish as a culture, not as a religion.* Most do not include Israel as a…
read moreUnited Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has expressed doubt over an Israel Defense Forces probe determining that the blast on a Gaza Strip beach last Friday that killed seven civilians was caused by a mine or explosive device, placed by…
read moreJune 13, 2006 Greetings, Below please find the link to the seventh Middle East Brief: “United States’ Policy Toward Hamas: An Initial Assesment” by Jeremy Pressman. This Brief analyzes the United States’ policy to isolate Hamas since its election to…
read moreMost Palestinians are believed to favor a two-state solution that would acknowledge Israel’s pre-1967 borders and thus, explicitly or implicitly, Israel’s right to exist. But the Hamas-led government that Palestinians elected this year refuses any such gesture. The Palestinian president,…
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Don’t punish Israel; it’s not terror’s causeSunday, June 11, 2006MAURICE SHEVIN This week, the Presbyterian Church-USA is holding its Biennial General Assembly in Birmingham. This event has caused a serious dilemma for Birmingham’s Jewish community and other friends of Israel.…
read more(Irshad Manji is author of The Trouble with Islam Today, available at SPMEMart spme.org/spmemart.html at discounted prices. ) Three years ago, as writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, I was putting the final touches on my book, The Trouble with…
read moreConventional wisdom holds that Israel’s international standing is directly related to its willingness to move toward peace with the Palestinians. Yet in recent years, despite previously unimaginable concessions, its international standing, far from improving, has hit an all-time low. Consider…
read moreNo. 543 5 Sivan 5766 / 1 June 2006 The U.S. military victory in Iraq did at first create a more congenial atmosphere among Palestinians for peace with Israel. However, the present situation in Iraq, as well as Iran and…
read moreAn anti-Israel and anti-Semitic wave is consuming England. Several groups are waging an aggressive war against Israel, and the battle has reached new heights of late. A group of British university lecturers with 67,000 members recently decided to support the…
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