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Sanction Lebanon for illegal arms
Which is more illegal: Israeli settlements in the West Bank or 500 tons of weaponry bound for Hezbollah? The world community is faced with that question since the Israeli navy seized contraband we...
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The real perpetrators
Gen. Amos Yadlin had two pieces of bad news for the Israeli Knesset — and the world — on Tuesday. First, he said the Iranian nuclear facility under construction inside a mountain near the city of ...
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We need J Street, too
In the 60-plus years Jews have debated the future of Israel, one thing is clear: We need both the political left and right to have these debates. The issues are complicated, and neither side of th...
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Plenty of reasons
We’re all for Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace. In fact, this paper has long supported a two-state solution, which gives each side the security it needs and the right it dese...
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Campus Judaism needs money
Everyone is feeling the pinch of a tough economy, and everybody is forced to make cuts. Some of those cuts, though, hurt more than others. Next week at the University of Pittsburgh, a consortium o...
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Proper recognition due
Several years ago, in Morgantown, W.Va., veterans organized a Memorial Day ceremony outside the courthouse there: Nothing surprising, veterans across the country always remember their fallen comra...
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opinion
Concerted effort needed to meet demand for educators
WALTHAM , Mass. — The Talmud teaches that if a king of Israel dies, all Jews are eligible to succeed him. But if a scholar dies, we are told, he cannot be replaced. I hope this is not so. Like th...
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In rebuttal: Do we really need J Street? You decide
The Oct. 15 editorial in The Chronicle entitled “We need J Street, too,” chastises critics asking about J Street’s funding and politics, and says critics never deal with substance. A few facts: M...
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Israel sees a warming in White House position, observer says
Barry Rubin thinks the U.S. position toward Israel is changing — and in Israel’s favor. In a Nov. 1 posting on his blog, The Rubin Report, he noted Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent state...
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President Obama needs to revisit Israel
JERUSALEM — In the year since President Obama visited Jerusalem as Candidate Obama, much has changed. Running for president, he of course leveraged his presence here to mobilize his supporters i...
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Kristallnacht and beyond: The specter returns
On Nov. 9, 1938, a massive nationwide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich. The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was t...
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Partnership, not placards, is the way to answer the BDS movement
Last weekend, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a three-day BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) conference at the University of Pittsburgh. This movement was founded in 2005 by a...
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In rebuttal Israeli studies at Pitt given serious treatment
Assuming that the study of Israel is inadequately represented in the curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh, a recent editorial and a letter to The Chronicle have called for the creation of an...
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Tuesday, 24, 2009
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Community Interfaith T... 7:30 PM
The 34th annual Community Interfaith Thank...