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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 23
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Double standard It would be hilarious were it not so serious that the Palestinian Authority finds allegations against it aired in the Arabic media to be “incitement,” and then able to act immediat...
Letters to the editor July 16
Jul 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
‘Firing’ slammed This letter is in reaction to the shock, dismay and anger the residents of Riverview Towers feel at the recent firing of our beloved activities director, Cheryl Weisberg. Without ...
Letters to the editor July 9
Jul 08, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
‘We are family’ lauded I would like to thank you and your staff for the wonderful stories of Pittsburgh families (“We are family,” June 2009). I am a member of the Farber family and the publicati...
Letters to the editor July 2
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Thanks I want to thank The Jewish Chronicle on two accounts. First, kudos for bringing Eric Lidji, new associate editor, back to Pittsburgh. When I met Eric, who was assigned to report on my proj...
Letters to the editor June 25
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Follow the situation Two weeks ago President Obama delivered a speech in Cairo that was strongly biased toward Muslims. It was full of inaccuracies and omissions. While many American Jews were di...
Letters to the editor June 19
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Tiller was a martyr The choice of words that the anti-choice movement has been using for the last four decades ultimately instigated the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Maria Vitale’s letter (“Docto...
Letters to the editor June 11
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Doctor’s murder condemned The murder of late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller has been swiftly condemned by the leaders of the pro-life movement. The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation extends it...
Letters to the editor May 28
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Kripper supported I am writing in support of Rabbi [Daniel] Kripper, whose unfortunate immigration status was described in a recent Chronicle article (“Immigration issues force Adat Shalom rabbi ...
Letters to the editor May 21
May 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Keep Covenant Jewish Why hasn’t the Jewish Association on Aging, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and the United Jewish Federation taken some positive action to submit a bid for the Covenant? Th...
Letters to the editor May 21
May 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Parent takes issue with story Hopefully, the findings of the recent JECEI survey of Pittsburgh Jewish preschools discussed in last week’s Chronicle (“Early childhood survey charts potential, chal...