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November 9, 2007
Subpoenas in AIPAC trial could reveal U.S. secrets
Subpoenas issued to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and other top Bush administration officials could end up shedding unprecedented light on the Bush administration\’s inner workings and the government\’s dealings with the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Unearthing mass graves in Ukraine unveils history
In May, Ukrainian workers laying a gas pipe in a southern village dug into a buried chamber of thousands of Jews killed during the Holocaust. That same month, a construction crew building a new office complex in western Ukraine burrowed into the corpses of several dozen more Jews. Stumbling upon such mass graves is not particularly unusual in Eastern Europe. Less well known is how many more \”martyr sites\” lie undiscovered and unmarked in fields and forests across the region — wherever mobile Nazi killing units scorched the earth in the so-called \”Holocaust of bullets.\” It seems momentum is growing in the search for such sites.
Progressives should join Jews on Iran strategy
Progressives need to reach out to their natural allies in the Jewish community by acknowledging that the threats of nuclear proliferation and international terrorism exist and support the same reasoned, international approach of sanctions and international pressure that has helped bring the North Korean nuclear program under control.
Kushmet
And so, my two favorite playwrights find themselves on opposite sides of a longstanding Jewish divide. \”All sound creative art is rooted in a ghetto,\” the critic Ludwig Lewisohn once wrote. Once out of that ghetto, the roots bifurcate, and we Jews have fashioned two strategies for survival. For the Mamets, salvation lies in toughness and certainty, the People of the Butch. For Kushner, our promise is in compromise and doubt.
Israel booming but helicopters may be an omen of trouble ahead
Just as the IDF works constantly to keep a small patch within Gaza clear of terrorists, so, too, Hamas makes efforts every day to get through, over or under the fence — and to engage the IDF. Hamas\’ success rate has been minimal, he says, and their casualties significant, \”but they\’re still coming, still trying, every day.\”
Shalom Auslander is my failure
This doesn\’t answer my questions. It doesn\’t staunch my tears. I don\’t sleep better. I don\’t justify terrible things when they happen to others, and I don\’t know why they don\’t happen to me. But I know that just as surely as there is inexplicable evil in the world, there is inexplicable good, as well. It\’s something to put on the other side of the scale, something to attribute to a good God.
Loving our passion
Rabbi Kanefsky is as passionate a Jew and lover of Israel as I\’ve ever met. By lighting up a firestorm of passion in other Jews, he reminded me why I so passionately love my people, even — and sometimes especially — when I disagree with them.
The Connector
But they can\’t give me credit — only God can. It says if you make three successful shidduchim, three matches, you automatically go to heaven. And this High Holy Day season I was thinking that I\’d really like an automatic pass. (\”Go directly to heaven. Do not pass hell; do not collect $200.) Three should be easy enough. I meet so many guys who just because they aren\’t for me doesn\’t mean they wouldn\’t be good for someone. What if this is my purpose in life? What if the point of my meeting so many people is to serve as what Malcolm Gladwell, in his book, \”The Tipping Point,\” calls \”The connector?\” I feel heady with possibilities.
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