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Ben Kamin's op-ed commentaries have appeared in The New York Times and a variety of other newspapers and magazines. Author of several books, and a scholar of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he is the founder of Reconciliation: The Synagogue Without Walls.

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‘The Moment’ was just one week ago today

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As the autumn and winter quickened toward January and Inauguration Day, this was clear: Everything was turning on its head in America: racial...
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OK, I’m ready for my bail-out now

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Dear Secretary of the Treasury-designate Geither:I know that you are a little busy presently explaining all your “honest mistakes,” and...
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What's up with these radical rabbis?

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Somewhat marring the national good mood in light of the change in government, a fundamentalist rabbinical organization in New York has embarrassed our...
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The long and bittersweet journey of Ted Kennedy

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When President and Mrs. Obama went to pray yesterday morning at the Washington National Cathedral, one recalled another occasion at such a vaunted...
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Were they owed this?

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Somebody asked me this recently and I continue to assume that it was not a leading question, and that it was part of an honest intellectual exercise....
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10 Americans speak from their souls on this day of days

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It’s a spiritual threshold, this inauguration day of the first non-Caucasian to be sworn into the presidency, particularly as it immediately...
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‘White /Colored’ was posted and I will never forget

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On this most historic MLK Day, my thoughts drift to a very hot day near Lake City, Florida, August 1963—the same month in which Rev. King would...
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Wonder what John McCain is doing this weekend

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Forgive me, but I’m not the only one who had trouble discerning who exactly John McCain was while running for the White House this fall against...
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Bush’s ‘I don’t know’ on Bin Laden is final moral abdication

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Was he kidding? Sitting smugly across from Larry King during an exit interview, dutiful wife Laura alongside, bobbing her head, President Bush...
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Pres. Bush’s ’12 things-to-do-list’ before leaving office

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WRITER’S NOTE: When I had the pleasure of meeting the president a few years ago, he reassured me and the other rabbis present that “As a...
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