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May 16, 2008Rabbi Stands By Words: A May 9 editorial compares me to Reverend Jeremiah Wright by accusing me of “inflammatory rhetoric” and of publicly hurling “strong epithets” in 1995 at then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, including calling his government “the Rabin Judenrat” (“Wright and Wrong”). The latter accusation is false.
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May 9, 2008Hold China Accountable: Opinion writers Antoine Halff and Shalom Solomon Ward question why China should bear the brunt of the Jewish community’s ire when India, Russia and Japan also import their share of oil from Sudan (“Enough Misguided Maligning of China,” May 2). But facts are facts.
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May 2, 2008The descriptor “peoplehood,” as a term purporting to collect all Jews under one umbrella, always seemed like a hopeful way of asserting that I have something in common with a Satmar Hasid in Kiryas Joel (“Peoplehood: There’s No There There,” April 25). Now Arts & Culture columnist Jay Michaelson comes along and shows its emptiness, largely on the argument that I, in fact, do not have much in common with that Satmar Hasid. Or, perhaps better, my intermarried, unaffiliated, assimilated brother-in-law has nothing in common with said Hasid.
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