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October 13, 2008
Akko riots expose Israel’s Arab-Jewish tinderbox
With the Jews mistrustful and the Arabs resentful, violence has the potential to set ethnic tensions aflame and shatter the uneasy coexistence that prevails.
Don’t run Republican Jewish Coalition ads, pro-Israel group J Street tells Jewish newspapers
A campaign by a new dovish pro-Israel group to get Jewish newspapers not to run Republican Jewish Coalition attack ads has raised questions about what\’s kosher and what isn\’t this political season.
From the recent ‘SNL’ archives: anti-Semitic jokes get edited out
Alan shrugged
Wall Street\’s problem, in the president\’s mind, is not a systemic pathology, not an illness that comes on the same chromosome as the profit motive. Instead, it\’s the behavior of a frat boy on a bender, the reckless phase of a good-time Charlie rather than the symptom of profound disease.
Debate rages over attack on Jewish soldier at Ft. Benning
All sides agree that a beating last month left a Jewish U.S. Army trainee, Private Michael Handman, with facial wounds, severe oral injuries and a concussion. What\’s in dispute is whether the assault — at the base in Fort Benning, Ga. — was carried out by multiple attackers, and if it was the product of an anti-Semitic campaign waged by Handman\’s superiors.