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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 April 1
Apr 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Mental illness overlooked Your March 25 review of “The Unveiling” is much appreciated. Your comments about the struggles of a Jewish family in pre-World War I Ukraine along with the adjustment di...
Letters to the editor March 25
Mar 25, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Family needs met I thank Abby Wisse Schachter for her timely analysis of the cost of being Jewish (“The high cost of Jewish living,” March 18). However, I do want to clarify a point made about tu...
Letters to the editor March 18
Mar 18, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Look forward, not backward Last week’s editorial on Jerusalem, “Too High a Price,” regretfully looked backward rather than forward. No one who supports the two-state solution envisions a divided ...
Letters to the editor March 11
Mar 11, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
Lack of respect The Squirrel Hill Jewish Community Center recently hosted “Party with the Presidents,” a gala Saturday night event. In reviewing a major local newspaper’s Web site photographs of...
Letters to the editor February 25
Feb 25, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Ill-conceived cartoon selection No relationship is easy, especially when it follows centuries of mistrust and persecution of one party by the other. The Catholic-Jewish relationship is no excepti...
Letters to the editor February 18
Feb 18, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
Cartoon was inflammatory How profoundly disappointed I am with The Chronicle’s unfortunate decision to run the ugly editorial cartoon wherein images of Jews being burned amidst Nazi insignia are ...
Letters to the editor February 11
Feb 09, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Let our youth decide I joined my daughter on the J-SITE bus to attend the Effie Eitam lecture at Hillel last week. J-SITE handled the event well, preparing the kids that the speaker may have radi...
Letters to the editor February 4
Feb 04, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Reject Eitam’s remarks Several people are upset that the Hillel Jewish University Center is involved in a presentation by Efraim Eitam. However, some will put this in the category of free speech...
Letters to the editor January 28
Jan 28, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
Hadassah in Haiti Israel was among the first responders to the crisis in Haiti last week, sending [army] rescue troops and medical personnel from Hadassah and other hospitals within days of the d...
Letters to the editor January 21
Jan 21, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Where to begin? There is so much that could be said in response to Michael Scheuer’s statement on C-SPAN, Israel has no “worth” to the United States. It could be noted Israel purchases about $8 b...