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The pro-Israel lobby is once again in the spotlight as Congress considers backing the president’s call for action in Syria. But does it function as critics say it does?
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The instability in the Middle East undermines the widespread belief that Israel is at the heart of the region’s problems, Dominic Lawson writes.
If President Obama fails to win congressional support for action in Syria, it would be a blow to AIPAC’s prestige. But don’t expect it to affect the pro-Israel lobby’s power in the future, argues Jeffrey Goldberg.
Opponents of intermarriage typically cast their struggle as one for Jewish values, but we need to first strengthen the commitment to marriage, argues Sylvia Barack Fishman.
Rabbi Matt is about to face his first dilemma as a Hillel rabbi in Alabama: The college’s biggest game falls on Yom Kippur. What’s a campus rabbi with a football-fanatic student population to do?
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