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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 | 2 2 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 | 13 13 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 14
Apr 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
World is still not whole One of the many beautiful passages in the cherished Union Prayer Book regularly used at my synagogue is the following plea to our God, “...Plant virtue in every soul and...
Letters to the editor April 7
Apr 07, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Dreyfuss almost made the cut Thanks so much for the thoughtful write-up about “Jews and Baseball” in The Jewish Chronicle (“Hey ‘Jews and Baseball’ makers, you forgot Barney Dreyfuss,” March 31)....
Letters to the editor March 31
Mar 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
Misrepresentations clarified In the March 24 letter in the Chronicle, “Corbett, paper assailed,” Mickie Diamond mentioned the forum sponsored by the Jewish Federation and League of Women Voters t...
Letters to the editor March 24
Mar 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
Corbett, paper assailed In last week’s Jewish Chronicle there is a big picture of Gov. Tom Corbett with the headline, “Jewish leaders taking ‘wait and see’ approach to proposed budget.” Two prof...
Letters to the editor March 17
Mar 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
We all have mothers The Chronicle periodically warns Israeli politicians to back off from the “Who is a Jew?” debate, and you might wish to take your own advice. A few years back you erred in im...
Letters to the editor March 10
Mar 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Zionist hopes at stake There is a lot of concern in the Jewish community about whether the Netanyahu government will go down in history for its failed leadership on the peace issue. At stake are ...
Letters to the editor March 3
Mar 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Headline criticized Please explain why The Jewish Chronicle runs a front-page photo saying “Jews join protest,” in Wisconsin when overwhelmingly Jews have not? (Jewish Chronicle, Feb. 24) Kudos t...
Letters to the editor February 24
Feb 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Preserve NEA funding The House of Representatives is on track to cut $43 million from the National Endowment for the Arts’ budget of $167.5 million. That’s a 26 percent cut — the deepest in 16 ye...
Letters to the editor February 3
Feb 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
HIAS slams column I am the Director of the HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) Israel office and am intimately involved in the evolution of the asylum system in Israel.  The system is lacking and...
Letters to the editor January 20
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Liberal culpability Joel Rubin’s op-ed piece relating the Tucson shooting to the assassination of Rabin (“Learning from Israel, post-Tucson,” Jan. 13) is an affront to reason. To paraphrase the l...