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Letters to the editor May 2
Volunteers lauded At Jewish Family & Children’s Service, volunteers are vital to our mission to provide services for individuals and families throughout our community. As a nonprofit social serv...
May 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor April 25
Pride in our senators Pennsylvanians should be proud that our senator, the Honorable Patrick Toomey, is one of the two leaders who brokered a bipartisan compromise that would expand background ch...
Apr 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor April 18
Register to vote In 1984, a letter from Rav Moshe Feinstein (z’’l) urged the community to register and vote. Interestingly, I was 18 at the time. The letter said that we who live in the United S...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor April 4
Remember the Struma As we read about the “apology” the Turkish prime minister demanded and was delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the pressure of President Obama, it is ...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor March 28
Statement assailed In the 21 March edition of The Jewish Chronicle, Rabbi Alvin Berkun stated, “Frankly, I believe if they had chosen a cardinal from Africa the Jewish community would have probl...
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor March 21
A major fallacy I read Lee Chottiner’s column entitled “Israelis, Palestinians can learn lessons from Africa,” in the March 7 edition. Outgoing U.S. special envoy, Princeton Lyman, while discussi...
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor March 7
Fair trade coffee touted Last year, in the JFilm Festival’s Short Film [lineup], there was a movie about fair trade coffee. There seems to be various definitions for “fair trade.” My general und...
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor January 31
Community ‘repels’ interfaith couples Abby Schachter’s recent article offered a simple solution to the Jewish “demographic crisis.” To preserve the Jewish community, your children cannot date a g...
Feb 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor January 3
Schechter to president, Congress: ‘Erect meaningful fences’ around weapons (Editor’s note: The following is taken from a Dec. 20 open letter to President Obama and the Members of Congress. It wa...
Jan 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor December 27
URA supports startups I read with great interest Abby W. Schachter's Dec. 20 column, “A Jew runs for city council.” I share Dan Gilman's desire to retain and attract youth and diversity to our ci...
Dec 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor December 20
Jews and gambling [Regarding the recent event in which] local Jewish college students on the verge of finals took a break and had a casino night at the Hillel-JUC: The winners were not the studen...
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor July 7
Jul 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Sensitivity lesson I received Jewish Pittsburgh Living and scanned its pages for familiar faces and regional Jewish highlights. I was surprised and disappointed however when I saw the Bistro19...
Letters to the editor June 16
Jun 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Toomey defended I take issue with the editorial page of the Jewish Chronicle (“Toomey’s learning curve,” June 9). The editors should not be criticizing Sen. Toomey’s well-intentioned remarks. Se...
Letters to the editor June 9
Jun 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Sending a message Osama Bin Laden’s death was a major victory in the war on terror, but there are more battles ahead. We must fight the terrorists, financially as well.  And Pennsylvania is begin...
Letters to the Editor, June 2
Jun 02, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
‘Count us in!’ In response to Rabbi Bisno’s “Courageous Conversations” piece in last week’s Jewish Chronicle, we at Community Day School say “Count us in!” We agree that we have to be prepared to ...
Letters to the Editor, May 26
May 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
Ready for those conversations It is encouraging to read the opinion piece by Rabbi Aaron Bisno in last week’s Chronicle. We echo his sentiments of needing to engage in “courageous conversations.” E...
Letters to the Editor, May 19
May 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Ascherman accusation Arik Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) believes that his organization alone determines the moral compass for human rights (“RHR’s Ascherman says human rights groups a...
Letters to the editor May 12
May 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Jacobs’ selection good for Israel Carol Greenwald’s guest column on the new head of the Union of Reform Judaism, Rabbi Rick Jacobs (“Reform’s nomination of Jacobs means a victory for J Street,” M...
Letters to the editor May 5
May 05, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
We are family Having been in Israel seven times since 2002, with five of those trips taking others with me to volunteer in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), I have been asked many times if I have ...
Letters to the editor April 28
Apr 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Community leadership needed Jewish community leadership claims that we face extinction, but like all other religions, we face apathy and a leadership that did not get the message. Jews have been ...
Letters to the editor April 21
Apr 22, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Jewish-Muslim cooperation was remarkable In response to “Eisenberg: Critical factors hard to achieve in Middle East peace talks,” (Scott W. Stern, April 14), your correspondent mentions only that...