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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons
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Taylor Jones, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
Obama and Nixon
Taylor Jones, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
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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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opinion
<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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Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
The last time we opined on the trouble at The Covenant at South Hills, we expressed hope that the broader Jewish community in Pittsburgh would have more to say about the financial challenges facing...
Questions in ex-AIPAC staffers case linger
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — It was just six weeks ago that the U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court to dismiss the Espionage Act charges that had been pending against former AIPAC officials Steven Rosen ...
Send the correct message
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Here’s what we’ve learned about Iranian democracy this past week: • It not so democratic. The state announced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection as president before all the polls were closed. • It’s ...
Did Brandeis support breaking laws to rescue Jews?
by Rafael Medoff
Jun 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Seventy years ago this week, David Ben-Gurion sat down to write a long letter to Louis D. Brandeis, the recently retired Supreme Court justice, elder statesman of American Zionism, and one of the m...
Dr. Tiller’s murder is an attack on America
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Dr. George Tiller was murdered because he performed abortions. Those who defend such actions justify them by claiming it is entirely appropriate to kill a person in order to prevent them...
Obama has it wrong on linkage
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — On May 18, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had their first meeting. President Obama emerged from the meeting with these words: “If there is a linkage betwe...
A new beginning? Let’s hope
Jun 11, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week, in a controversial address to the Islamic world from Egypt, President Obama called for “a new beginning” between Americans and Muslims. We hope so. Defused tension between the Western wo...
Israeli checkpoints save lives
Jun 03, 2009 | 3 3 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week, members of the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine demonstrated at the corner of Murray and Forbes avenues. They created mock checkpoints to p...
People-to-people contact with P.A. leaders generates goodwill
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
On a recent trip to Israel, I was reminded of the importance of people-to-people relations in breaking down stereotypes and building cross-cultural relations. As part of Pittsburgh’s Partnership 20...
Groups have options to secure their future
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — There is hardly a Jewish organization that has been left untouched by the recent economic downturn. The dearth of philanthropic dollars coupled with a drop in fee for service revenue ha...