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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons
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Taylor Jones, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
Obama and Nixon
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editorial
Right to act
After four decades of relative calm, Israel’s northern border with Syria is heating up — fast. Several minor border incursions have been reported in recent months that are directly related to the c...
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Square One
Support is waning for Natan Sharansky’s proposal to allow all Jews to worship freely at the Western Wall, and that should be dismaying  for those committed to reduce tensions at Judaism’s holiest s...
May 02, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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There is no difference
It’s understandable why some Americans, including some prominent U.S. Senators, wanted to see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev declared an enemy combatant for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings. After all, ...
Apr 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Wait and see
Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky is, of course, touting his proposal for traditional and egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site. “One Western Wall for one J...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Where are the young people?’
Several people packed into the YMCA in the Hill District last week for the last in a three-part series on black-Jewish relations in Pittsburgh, which addressed the fallout from the 1968 riots. Actu...
Apr 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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The new threat
Of all the news items to come out of the Middle East in recent weeks, this one has the potential to be the most serious by far: The Israel Resource News Agency (IRNS) in Jerusalem has reported that...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Lee Chottiner</i>
Bayer should address Shoa in sesquicentennial year
It’s nearly 70 years since the end of World War II and much has changed in Germany, but one of the most notable changes there has been resurrection of its Jewish community. Today, more than 200,000...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Joel Rubin</i>
Syria, Iran and the red lines trap
WASHINGTON — In foreign policy, “red lines,” or public statements of policy boundaries, are often set by one nation to make it clear to another that, if the red line is breached, there will be cons...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Abby Wisse Schachter</i>
Overlooking Jewish genetics a missed opportunity
You care about the Jewish people, right? If so, a major concern should be the health and welfare of the people, no? One fundamental way of keeping the Jewish people whole, healthy and well is to un...
May 10, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Parade of liberators jogs survivor’s own memory of freedom, and enslavement
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum celebrated its 20th anniversary April 28. I was there to attend a salute to the veterans of World War II and Holocaust survivors — a gathering of more than 4,000 ...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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<i>Rep. Dan Frankel</i>
In rebuttal: Lawmaker defends opposition to new abortion regs
In her column last week, “Regulation-happy PA ignores murder factory,” Abby W. Schachter placed me on the stand with Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is currently being tried for murder in Philadelphia. Her...
May 03, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jews should work to reduce fossil fuels, not ally with gas and oil companies
NEW YORK — JTA recently reported on a new alliance between Jewish leaders and domestic gas and oil companies. Called the Council for a Secure America, the alliance is based on a “common interest” b...
May 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gary Rosenblatt
UJA-Fed’s top exec bucked trends in his tenure
NEW YORK — Soon after John Ruskay took over the helm of UJA-Federation of New York in 1999 he gave a major address based on the notion, then prevalent, that Israel had reached a point in its histor...
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Archives
Scheuer has much to learn about countries of ‘worth’
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jan 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst who claims he lost his job because of his anti-Israel views, went on the C-SPAN morning talk show “Washington Journal” on Jan. 4 and said Israel has no “worth...
Will 2010 be the year of immigration reform?
by Robert S. Whitehill
Guest Columnist
Jan 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
When many people think of our so-called “broken” immigration system, they think of undocumented aliens. They think of borders out of control. They think of the jobs that foreign workers take. Immi...
Wall belongs to all
Jan 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Last month, this paper came out against the treatment of members of Women of the Wall, a monthly prayer group, largely comprised of Orthodox women, who meet at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to pray. Spe...
Muammar Gadhafi? Not in my backyard  
by Shmuley Boteach
Guest Columnist
Jan 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — Like many people these days, I am a busy man. But that did not stop me from taking off several weeks from my professional life to fight Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi’s plan to tak...
Sharon’s sad anniversary
Jan 06, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
This week, the family, friends, admirers — and perhaps even critics — of Ariel Sharon marked the fourth anniversary of the former prime minister’s massive stroke. It’s a stark and sad reminder of ...
Promoting Pius XII could have ramifications  
by Robert S. Wistrich
Guest Columnist
Dec 31, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Ten years ago, on a cold winter morning in New York City, the Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission, established to investigate Pope Pius XII’s response to the Holocaust, met for the fi...
Health law instructor is cheering for Obamacare
by Gary Kaplan
Guest Columnist
Dec 31, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Like much of the opposition to health care reform, Abby Wisse Schachter’s Dec. 23 article “Ready to cheer for Obamacare? Not so fast,” offers fictional statistics to support sarcasm and scare tacti...
History: Dividing Jerusalem a bad idea
Dec 31, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Ask any Israeli or Diaspora Jew who is old enough to remember, and they’ll tell you. Prior to the Six-Day War in 1967, Jews couldn’t enter the Old City in Jerusalem. The Western Wall, Judaism’s hol...
Pittsburgh native describes how immersion in Israel changed his life
by Samuel Thompson
Guest Columnist
Dec 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Growing up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, my Jewish identity was menoras on the mantelpiece and dreidel-infused door wreaths in December.  After learning about the nuances of Judaism and ...
Women have equal rights at the Wall
Dec 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Thursday, Dec. 17, was a day that passed quietly in Jewish Pittsburgh, but it shouldn’t have. That was the designated day of international solidarity with the Israeli organization Women of the Wall...