Israel bail out Gaza? Cheeky, Tony

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God is not the enemy of reason

It is an article of faith (except, of course, among those who actually have a faith) that the dethronement of God by the apostles of secularism has ushered in an age of reason. Belief in the Almighty is now widely held to be a priori evidence of primitive stupidity.

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Why we really need the Queen

Shortly after he became Prime Minister, Gordon Brown announced that there was to be a "national conversation" on constitutional reform. This was the time (how very long ago it seems now) of the "Brown bounce", when Mr Brown actually enjoyed a modicum of national popularity. He was determined (his spin-doctors assured us) to sweep away the heavily cobwebbed constitutional niceties that the country had inherited from long ago.

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Schlep back home, Sarah

Last weekend, hundreds of young Jews descended on Florida to convince their grandparents to vote for Senator Obama, earning wide press coverage, including in the UK. "The Great Schlep", organised by the pro-Obama Jewish Council for Education and Research, may have had a humorous edge, but it has entrenched the idea that if Obama loses the swing state of Florida, it will be down to racist old Jews.

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Vote for me — I have a kippah

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Don’t make martyrs of deniers

It's a waste of money prosecuting Shoah-deniers -just confront their views in public

Any limit on freedom of speech is wrong and almost always achieves the opposite to that which it is aiming for. But in the case of Holocaust-deniers, sticking them in prison is an especially bad idea.

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I’ve found my inner builder

Succot reminds us that life isn't all about brain work - there's divinity in manual labour

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Jew-hatred we don’t care about

The Baltic states are erasing the memory of the Holocaust - and even prosecuting survivors. Where is our outrage?

With Yom Kippur coming up, I know we are meant to be atoning for our own sins rather than making
accusations against others. But some crimes are too big to ignore.

The crime in question is the Holocaust - or, more precisely, the way we remember it. As the remnant of survivors shrinks, and as that event passes from living memory into history, there is a battle underway for how the Shoah will be recorded for posterity.

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The extremists are taking over

Charedi activists are trying to ban ‘non-kosher' music and force women to dress more modestly in Israel

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Money-making is not all evil

In the Chief Rabbi's pre-Rosh Hashanah programme on BBC1 on Monday, Rabbi Sacks complained that too much emphasis is put on making money, and not enough on bringing up children. As the JC's TV reviewer Simon Round says opposite, no one can argue with that. And yet, Rabbi Sacks misses a crucial point.]

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