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9 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Bibi’s Iran Exag... · 0 replies · +2 points

Candidly I think there are some serious risks for Israel and the world. Your article suggesting Natanyahu exaggerates things is itself quite misleading. That said, the U.S. is in a different position than Israel and a significant risk to Israel does not necessarily translate to the same risk for the U.S.

9 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Iconic Mideast Photo I... · 0 replies · +1 points

There was better relations and communications years ago. Tougher people on both sides have taken the lead.

9 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Why Jews Should Care A... · 0 replies · +1 points

What Poor People Need and Want

A plague of locusts can lay waste to anything and everything in its wake. "The Locust Effect" makes the compelling case that violence (common, everyday person-on-person violence) is laying waste to anything and everything for the poor in the developing world. Our efforts to feed the poor, educate the illiterate, uplift and empower girls and women, combat cultural prejudices, stimulate bruised economies, provide shelter for the homeless cannot and will not succeed unless we change the conversation and start to consider how deeply violence affects the very people we hope to help.

We would do well not to simply assume we know what the poor need. When asked, what the poor want most is not education, food, shelter or opportunity - they want to live in safety, without fear that the little they have and those they love could be decimated by evil-doers acting with impunity. They want justice: justice which HAS to come from public justice systems.

The thesis of the book is simple: the end of poverty requires the end of violence; and to end violence, countries need functioning public justice systems.

Haugen and Boutros carefully, academically, painstakingly and passionately argue that violence against the poor is both the biggest issue which the poor are facing, and also the single issue which the world at large has yet to address for human rights.

9 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Lancet Won\'t Retract ... · 0 replies · +3 points


About 20% of x-rays are inaccurate and miss tumors and I wrote to a Radiology Journal to suggest that radiologists recommend CT Scans to promote better diagnosis and reduce possible claims. The letter was not accepted with the journal suggesting that it concern possible legal issues. The point is these medical journals, even in letters they publish, cover medical research and diagnosis and should not be used to ventilate political viewpoints.

9 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Slaves of Charleston &... · 0 replies · +5 points

What a miserable human being. One day, he commits horrible atrocities, next day goes to the temple and talks about love thy neighbor, during the holiday horribly tortures his black slaves, then celebrates Passover remembering one day we were slaves in Egypt. We see today Ray Rice being correctly condemned for beating his wife one day; this was what Cohen did on a regular basis.

Rambam36 wrote, "Folks, that was the way it was back then. Just about everybody who could afford a slave and thought it was worthwhile to do so, back then, bought one. For quite a long time, the whole world saw nothing wrong with it." So we also give the average Nazi a pass too, because they were just following existing rules and norms. Another wrote, "the vast majority of slave owners were decent and even kindly to their slaves. They tried very hard to create a family atmosphere for those who worked their fields and cared for their families."

One supposes the family atmosphere did not take place when the slaveowner was selling the slave's beloved wife or children, raping a 13 year old girl (or boy depending upon preference) or deciding to beat the slave because the harvest was not good or the slaveowner was having a bad day. In fact, the average Egyptian overseer was actually quite nice and some of the changes in procedure about which Moshe complained were simply incentives to increase productivity.

I agree that any of these slaveowners committed a disgrace and should be condemned not honored in our temples. Read the book "Slaves in Our Family" where the great grandson of a slaveowner tried to apologize to those his family hurt. We don't give them a pass anymore than giving those who participated in pogroms a pass saying burning Jews homes, killing men, and raping women was just a way to have fun on a Saturday night.

9 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Israeli Professor Sugg... · 0 replies · +13 points

Looking at the article, I agree with his defenders. He accurately said that it is difficult to deter violence. Obviously things like destroying rocket launchers, walls to prevent entry, destroying tunnels do help prevent terrorism. Do bombs that kill many innocent people deter or do they create a cycle of violence where family members of those who were injured or died try to avenge their sad deaths.

The Professor simply identified things that might work but cannot be used.

9 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Jewish Groups Resume D... · 0 replies · +6 points

It would be nice if people wrote about the poor treatment of Jews in Iraq and many other Arab countries. Sadly little attention is given to their plight.

Obviously people have noted the tremendous attention given to Palestinian rights (a high priority item) contrasted with intervention to help the thousands of Jewish women, children, and men during the Holocaust (a low priority one). To be fair and balanced, the murder of hundreds of thousands of people in North Korea on a scope comparable to the Holocaust has also been a low priority item for the world. He's a maniacal dictator who tortures and murders anyone perceived of opposing him or holding their own views, anything easy we can do, No, okay, what's on tv tonight.