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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 | 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: 1/22
Jan 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
No game playing here These are hard days for the people of Israel and I wanted to share my personal story and some facts about the conflict. I’m form Ashkelon, a beautiful city on the cost of th...
Letters to the editor: 1/15
Jan 14, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Israel has done enough I recently got into a debate about what my friend called “the plight of the innocent Palestinians being manipulated by their Hamas leadership to use their places of worship...
Letters to the editor: 1/8
Jan 07, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Israel needs our help Volunteers are desperately needed in Israel to support the military effort being made to stop the rocket fire into the Israeli cities from Gaza. We recently returned from a ...
Letters to the editor: 1/1
Dec 31, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Schachter got it right Several individuals wrote to take issue with Abby Wisse Schachter’s editorial “An open letter to President George W. Bush.” I would suggest that they re-read the section wh...
Letters to the editor: 12/25
Dec 24, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Pollard a hero In the Dec. 11 edition there was a letter from someone from Morris Township, N.J. Why? Are you so short on local letters to the editor? The only thing right about that letter was y...
Letters to the editor: 12/11
Dec 10, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Public knowledge In his Dec. 4 letter, “Chabad coverage assailed,” Harvey Rosenblum expresses his displeasure that a comment made by his rabbi in his temple’s bulletin has become the subject of ...
Letters to the editor: 11/4
Dec 03, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
We must pull together I want to thank The Jewish Chronicle for the editorial you printed in the Nov. 27 edition in support of the new Chabad House opening in Monroeville (“Chabad helps enrich Je...
Letters to the editor: 11/27
Dec 01, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Welcome Monroeville Chabad As former chair of the Adult Education Committee of Temple David in Monroeville, I would like to briefly weigh in on the concern voiced by the current spiritual leader...
Letters to the editor: 11/20
Nov 19, 2008 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Editorial assailed I was shocked to read your Nov 13. editorial “Jerusalem for all.” After noting the recent election of Nir Barkat as Jerusalem mayor, you reported that the religious candidate, ...
Letters to the editor: 11/13
Nov 12, 2008 | 1 1 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
Coverage criticized I read with much interest your Oct. 9 editorial, “Confronting crackpots,” and Mike Zoller’s article “KDKA talk show host meant nothing by bailout remark, station executive ...