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We would represent a mature adult section of society. Sneakers and socks flowing biblical garments and youngsters holding banners were unacceptable.

On September 6, 2002, John Kerry in an op-ed in The New York Times stated that 'I refuse ever to accept the notion that...

Do you consider the Palestine Solidarity Movement's hate speech against Jews and the Jewish state, and in favor of suicide terrorism, "vile" speech or not?

As all Israelis know, Israel has problems like all nations of the world. Still, many students tried to stop me from speaking.

7 p.m.: Brit Hume and company over at Fox News look as though they've just been informed of the death of a loved one. Could the exit polls have been even worse than had been rumored all afternoon on the Internet? No one's saying anything, of course, but the atmosphere is positively funereal.

In "The Media and the Military," an article in the November issue of The Atlantic - arguably the best serious magazine in America today - Robert Kaplan writes of the great social and cultural divide that exists between the nation's elite journalists and its soldiers.

Did Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vow to burn Palestinian children and rape Arabic girls? Did former Israeli leader Menachem Begin refer to Palestinians as "two-legged beasts," and did another Israeli leader declare that all Arabs must be killed unless they are willing to live as slaves?

At the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919, in a flag-bedecked, battle-scarred but victorious Paris, the great top-hatted Allied men of vision and illusion gathered to remake the world and invent the post-Ottoman Middle East.

Ah, can there be anything so delightful as the sound of liberals whimpering in the morning? Consider:

True ContritionI recently received three 100-dollar bills in the mail from 'Ploni Almoni.' Enclosed was a note from the sender, who confessed that many...

Unite Behind The WinnerDuring a Thursday morning interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Boston Red Sox pitching star Curt Schilling looked into the camera...

The American people have once again demonstrated that they are the most glorious on earth.

By the time you read this article, Arafat will have died, and many will say good riddance.

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Neither President Bush nor Senator Kerry addressed an absolutely key issue of current American foreign policy in the opening debate.

Since the presentation of our original Project Daniel document to Prime Minister Sharon on January 16, 2003 (it remained secret until this past May), there have been a few relatively minor "victories" in the effort to control WMD proliferation among Israel's enemies.

In the October 7, 2004 issue of The New York Review of Books, Rob Malley, who was part of the U.S. team at Camp David, reviewed Dennis Ross's book on the peace process (The Missing Peace) and came to a conclusion very different from Ross.

While Lebow promoted this populist vision, his shtetl background, his Yiddish, and the religious observance of his youth (which his siblings had not abandoned as he had) were always part of him.

The sorrowful tune was unmistakable; someone was playing taps in a slow yet steady tune. So sad. So haunting.

Could what happened at the University of Pisa happen here? Some might say it already has.

Barring any of the nightmare scenarios posited by those who worried about the results being literally too close to call, the presidential election will have been decided by the time this column appears in print. But the Monitor was still busy early this week sorting through the daunting number of letters and e-mails that began coming in almost immediately after The Jewish Press endorsed George W. Bush two weeks ago.

No singles event in history saw half its participants get a date, and certainly not in such a low-pressure fashion.

Apocalypse, of course, was pretty much a Jewish invention (at least if you ignore ancient Persia and the Zoroastrians), and there is certainly an apocalyptic element in Chicago's own Saul Bellow.

The Likud Party in Israel is in crisis. While presuming to be a "broad tent" for a gamut of political opinion, it increasingly is split along the tectonic lines defined by the Gaza disengagement plan of Ariel Sharon.

Dej? VuThe story of the abandonment of the Jews during the Holocaust, retold in Marvin Kalb's marvelous front-page essay ("Misreporting the Holocaust," Oct. 22),...

The struggle today in the land of Israel should re-ignite a debate that has existed in the Jewish world for at least 100 years

It will probably not surprise his critics that Rush Limbaugh doesn't read the Times; he hasn't "for a couple of years."

FJE is to be praised for making recommendations to achieve these goals essential for a healthy Jewish education system.

In commenting on the Dan Rather fiasco last week and the week before that, the Monitor was remiss in not mentioning the revolutionary role played by the Internet - specifically, the army of tenacious webloggers who began exposing Rather almost as soon as his fallacious '60 Minutes' story on George Bush and the Texas Air National Guard aired earlier this month.

It can be inherited -- not genetically, of course, but through the malign impact of a bigoted adult on his or her children and grandchildren.