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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 February 23
Feb 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Festival opens March 15 Thank you so much to Toby Tabachnick for the wonderful article (“JFilm releases 2012 festival lineup,” Feb. 16) about the upcoming JFilm Festival. We want to make sure you...
Letters to the editor February 16
Feb 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Bible resolution was controversial I want to thank Oren Spiegler for his letter on H.R. 535, the “Year of the Bible” resolution (“Bible resolution hypocritical,” Feb. 9). While I can’t explain th...
Letters to the editor February 9
Feb 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Bible resolution hypocritical I have to believe that members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly attempt to outdo each other for outrageousness and the extent to which a thumb is jammed into th...
Letters to the editor February 2
Feb 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
No laments, please I am writing in response to the “Slings and arrows” column in the Jan. 26 edition. Rather than lament Mr. Lieberfeld’s essay, the paper could have published an open letter pro...
Letters to the editor January 26
Jan 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Presidential politics rapped Let me see:  Republican candidate for president, Rick Santorum, is proposing that if he is elected president he will push to give tax credits to parents to have more ...
Letters to the editor January 19
Jan 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Unfair tax system I cannot imagine a more poignant and moving letter than Jeffrey Lewin’s (“Food, meds, or taxes,” Jan. 5), a man who is a longtime disability retiree who left the labor market a...
Letters to the editor January 12
Jan 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Appeal for Gross I am hoping you have heard about the plight of my friend, Alan Gross. Alan is from the Washington, D.C., area and his situation has received a lot of coverage in our local news. ...
Letters to the editor January 5
Jan 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Food, meds or taxes? My grandparents lost everything they had to the Nazis, including their home. Am I going to lose my home to Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh? I was employed at the ...
Letters to the editor December 29
Dec 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Oral histories a vital resource I want to wish Joy Braunstein well as she takes on the task to continue the work of the Holocaust Center to educate teachers, students and the public about the his...
Letters to the editor December 22
Dec 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Bombastic attack As I perused my “Jewish” Chronicle, on Dec. 7, a time during which the Jewish community was preparing for Chanuka, I noticed one op-ed in that Chronicle’s edition. I naturally ex...