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Democracy is no Panacea

The rise to power of Islamists in Egypt skewers myths about peace.As Egyptian voters recently went to the polls in what was their first-ever...

Chareidim vs. Progress?

This Sunday was the big asifa at Citi Field, called together to address the perils of the Internet. With over 50,000 in attendance, this...

Forecasting the Jewish Vote in 2012

The question returns every presidential election year: is the Jewish vote up for grabs? For longer than anyone can remember most American Jews have...

Jewish Voices: Speak Up!

How can the interests of an individual be balanced with those of her community? How can a person’s reputation be protected without compromising his...

PA Prisoners Are Hungry, But For What?

Fewer (much fewer) than 1% of the Arab prisoners hunger-striking in Israeli prisons are administrative detainees. Almost all were charged, tried and convicted for...

Addressing Child Abuse Allegations in the Hasidic Community

The crime of sexually abusing a child, including adolescents and teens, is so heinous that the public is immediately shocked and angered. For a...

The World’s Smallest Violin

So to protest the conditions of their confinement (namely, the fact that they’re sitting in jail and not out on murder sprees), some 1,500...

Kosher Journalism

So we’ve been getting a lot of letters lately, some of them clearly part of an organized, or semi-organized campaign. (I say that because...

From Hank Greenberg to Delmon Young

Slurs against Jews and blacks - the source is the same kind of bigotry, but the results are vastly different. And how about anti-Semitic...

Why an Israeli Consensus Regarding the Response to Iran Must be Priority #1 of the New Coalition Government

The issue of how to deal with the threat of Iran manufacturing a nuclear bomb is a matter affecting Israel’s very existence and, therefore,...

Ehud Olmert and Intelligence Heads in Destructive Rampages

We have recently been subjected to a variety of prominent Israelis publicly besmirching their country in order to promote their personal agendas or compensate...

Their Fair Share

Those of you who follow Israeli affairs (and what better way is there to do that from outside Israel than reading the Jewish Voice?)...

South Sudan is a Jewish Cause

The great Jewish historian, Salo W. Baron, famously criticized the “lachrymose” conception of Jewish history, by which he meant the reduction of the Jewish...

Is Turkey Getting Dragged into War with Syria?

Since the first wave of uprisings in Syria, and with the increasingly violent crackdown strategy of President Bashar al-Assad, Turkey has significantly shifted its...

At Harvard, Dennis Ross Takes Another Bite of the Apple

The nearly 20-year-old peace process between Israel and the Arabs has become a self-sustaining industry, producing lucrative incomes and prestigious accolades for people who...

Ahmed Qurei and the Definition of Irony

Apparently, officials from the Palestinian Authority are either immune to irony or are willfully ignorant in their approach to the “peace process,” which admittedly...

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