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IRS Pleads the Fifth <br>
Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle
IRS Pleads the Fifth
Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle
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Do Nothing Congress<br>
RJ Matson, Roll Call
Do Nothing Congress
RJ Matson, Roll Call
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editorial
Here’s a safe place
As he spoke last Monday at Rodef Shalom Congregation about civil discourse, Ethan Felson, vice president and general counsel of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, lamented the case of … Peter B...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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opinion
Art education without ethics does students a disservice
Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh was not pleased. During the Antigravity Parade at Carnegie Mellon University this year, a student participated wearing a pontifical shaped crown and barely anything...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gary Rosenblatt
Futurist believes Israel’s leaders could overstep their limits
NEW YORK — David Passig, a professor at Bar-Ilan University, is the first to admit that he is neither a prophet nor a seer. Still, his job is to predict the future, based on the new academic discip...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 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 | 7 7 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 | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Archives
Who are Israel’s accusers?
by Gerald Steinberg
Guest Columnist
Sep 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — One of Human Rights Watch’s common refrains is the demand for “independent investigations” based on the allegation that Israel is unable to conduct its own inquiries. Officials at the o...
Prepare for contraction
Sep 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Here’s a stark prediction: In 20 years, many of the 26 Jewish congregations in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County — perhaps even half of them — will no longer exist. They will have either merged with ...
The biblical and rabbinic roots of Ted Kennedy’s politics
by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
Guest Columnist
Sep 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Hailed by many as perhaps the greatest senator of the 20th century, Ted Kennedy died following a 15-month-long battle with brain cancer. I don’t know if he really was the greatest senator, but he w...
Hamas’ anti-Semitic statements
Sep 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Lest anyone still believe that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, just reread the statements made this week by Hamas leaders about teaching the Holocaust in Gaza schools. In so many words, they ask...
Israel advocacy is needed on non-Hillel campuses
by Jay Tcath
Aug 27, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
CHICAGO — The support of the world’s only superpower for the world’s only Jewish state is a priceless asset for Israel. Sustaining that support, especially among the 98 percent of Americans who are...
Mr. President, time to ‘recalibrate’ on Middle East
by Stephen J. Savitsky
Aug 27, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
I was most privileged on July 13 to be invited along with 16 other Jewish leaders to meet with President Obama at the White House. Much has been written about this historic meeting; it’s hard to be...
New light on torture
Aug 27, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
For years, we listened to the Bush administration insist that the United States does not torture. Now, with the release Monday of a 2004 report by then-CIA Inspector General John L. Helgerson, you ...
GOP must repudiate Limbaugh or be defined by him
by Menachem Rosensaft
Guest Columnist
Aug 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — One stark difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats appear to be far more willing to confront and publicly denounce bigots and extremists in their own fold. This has...
Who are the Downtown Jews?
Aug 20, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
No matter how spacious and beautiful the new Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob synagogue, currently under construction Downtown, will be, there are still those in the community who say it shouldn’t...
President Clinton’s Mission to North Korea ennobles us all
by Menachem Rosensaft
Aug 13, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
On April 19, 1945, literally days before the end of World War II, Norbert Masur, a German-born representative of the Swedish section of the World Jewish Congress, flew from Stockholm to Berlin for ...