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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 5/7
May 07, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Bill supported Thank you for the wonderful article, “W.Va. Holocaust commission struggles for funding, survival,” (April 23). When we had the Yom Hashoa service in Morgantown, W.V. House of Deleg...
Letters to the editor: 4/30
Apr 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
Gun control article unbalanced (Editor’s note: This letter is in response to a story in the April 16th Chronicle, “Gun control a divisive issue for American Jews.”) I have NOT seen the gun contr...
Letters to the editor: 4/23
Apr 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
An immediate urgency This week, the United Nations launched its first global racism conference in eight years. The conference in Geneva, titled with the intention of fighting racism, has actually...
Letters to the editor: 4/16
Apr 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Why this year is different While there is still much uncertainty about how the current economic downturn will impact our community, we noted with concern the situation reported in the March 19 Chr...
Letters to the editor: 4/9
Apr 13, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
No ‘parroting’ of Israel’s position A letter by Mr. Richard Fox from South Side, which appeared in the March 28 issue of The Chronicle, needs a response. Mr. Fox makes the point that the Pittsbur...
Letters to the editor: 3/26
Mar 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Face facts In the March 19 issue of The Jewish Chronicle an article appears describing recent activities at local universities that have been labeled “anti-Israel.” While I don’t see any point in...
Letters to the editor: 3/5
Mar 04, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Teen makes positive difference Fifteen-year-old California high school student McKay Hatch is a young man who is mature and wise far beyond his years. McKay has founded a burgeoning group called ...
Letters to the editor: 2/26
Feb 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Hadassah open for business The Hadassah office, located at 1824 Murray Ave. in the heart of Squirrel Hill, is and has always been open. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of our demise was grea...
Letters to the editor: 2/5
Feb 04, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Giving blood a mitzvah Toby Tabachnick’s story about Ellen Schall’s frequent platelet donation was an important reminder about the ability of each of us to do our own part to repair the world. ...
Letters to the editor: 1/29
Jan 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Fresh eyes needed My heart grieves for Izzedin Abuleish. The loss of his three dear daughters and other family members when an Israeli shell hit their home is nearly too painful to bear (“Jewish...