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Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle
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Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle
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The new equality
No matter what you think of Naftali Bennett, the current religious affairs minister in the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he knows how to cut to the heart of a matter. Take the tr...
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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A long transition
Far be it from us to downplay the importance of a November general election, and we always encourage our readers to vote, but barring some unforeseen scandal or monumental public relations blunder,...
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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More than one way to be Jewish
The recent hiring of Dan Marcus to be the next executive director and CEO of the Hillel Jewish University Center is welcomed news by many in this community. Marcus, after all, is a known commodity ...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 17 17 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 | 12 12 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 | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Foreign policy wishes for Father’s Day
As a father, I feel responsible not only for my three little girls’ health and well being, but also for their emotional security, their education and their safety.  Because of this, I believe that ...
Jun 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letter to an Israeli pioneer
Dear Raffa: You came into my life and married my mother when I was 10.  You asked my permission and let me try on the engagement ring first.  I accepted you as my father.  We had the wedding at our...
Jun 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘A bris is still a bris’
I feel a little unsettled this Father’s Day. It’s an odd feeling — of loss and strong obdurate silence where once there were words, sounds and a linguistic joie de vivre. My father, Robert Perloff,...
Jun 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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Spruced-up train station, other amenities, draw Israelis to City of Gold
Jerusalem — On the night we arrived in Israel, my wife and I went for a stroll to see the newly renovated train station complex in the center of town. As we walked through the gates and saw the lar...
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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The moral case for reforming the Jewish education model
Last year, in Jewish Ideas Daily, Aryeh Klapper, who is dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership and teaches rabbinic literature at Gann Academy, a pluralistic Jewish high school in Waltham, ...
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tragic ghost of Holocaust continues to haunt
NEW YORK — Imagine that you are a Jew in Nazi-occupied Europe.  Imagine further that somehow you have developed a relationship, with a senior SS officer responsible for what is euphemistically know...
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rabbi Gittelsohn made history with Iwo Jima sermon
The fight for Iwo Jima in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. A tiny island in the Pacific dominated by a volcanic mountain and pockmarked with caves, Iwo Jima was the setting for a five...
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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How to get West Virginia Jews to Israel
by Linda Pickholtz Klein, Guest Columnist
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — It’s an interesting proposition, and takes a variety of ingredients to accomplish this endeavor. First, you need people with vision and ability. For us it was Art (z’l) and Joan...
A Jew runs for city council
Dec 19, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
“If I’m successful, half of city council will be under 35,” says Dan Gilman, who last month declared that he’ll run for the District 8 city council seat of his current boss Bill Peduto. But though ...
A way forward on gun control
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
There are plenty of items in this week’s Chronicle, but there is only one story. Everywhere in America this week there is just one story. Twenty children from Newtown, Conn., are dead, gunned down ...
How to avoid a failed post-Assad Syria
by Joel Rubin
Dec 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Syria is in free fall. Forty thousand civilians and combatants have been killed with the toll still rising; 175,000 Syrians have been wounded; half a million refugees have been sent ov...
Have Obama and Bibi made up?
by Lee Smith, Guest Columnist
Dec 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week, Bibi Netanyahu’s government announced it was planning additional settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. European capitals have demanded an explanation from Israeli ...
Square one
Dec 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants to resume peace talks, but only if Israel freezes settlement construction for six months in the West Bank and Jerusalem. There’s just one problem: Israel t...
Consequences to Palestinian unilateral actions
by Eric Mandel, Guest Columnist
Dec 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Judaism is punctilious in its adherence and respect to agreements and contracts. For example, most rabbis would not marry a woman who had not received a get (Jewish marriage contract) in...
Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg: 27 years later
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Dec 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — For more than 30 years after his liberation from the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany on April 15, 1945, my father, Josef Rosensaft, who headed both the Central Committee o...
How to respond
Dec 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The Palestinian Authority’s decision to seek an observer nation status at the United Nations General Assembly was clearly a setback for peace. It violates interim agreements by seeking unilateral r...
Israelis resilient under fire, but there are limits
by Asher Wiseman
Nov 28, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
KIBBUTZ KFAR RUPPIN, Israel — The routine comfort and rural tranquility of the kibbutz was interrupted Wed., Nov. 14, when all students were urgently called to their respective lounges to see the f...