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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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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
Pope Benedict fostered Catholic-Jewish relations
by Rabbi Marvin Hier, Guest Columnist
Feb 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES — The election or the demise of a pope is always an event of enormous public interest that resonates well beyond the Catholic world.  This was certainly the case when the newswires flas...
For Israel’s sake, Obama needs his security team
by Joel Rubin
Feb 21, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — President Obama will visit Israel in March.  This will be his first visit as president, and third visit overall.  His agenda also includes visits to the West Bank and Jordan.  His trip...
Lies that never die: Why a 93-year-old became a blogger
by Moshe Baran
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
If you think that you are informed about what really happened in Sandy Hook, Conn., then read the following excerpt from an article published on an Iranian website: “Last Friday, December 14, Adam ...
A warning
Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week, when the Chronicle reported on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, we quoted Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, director of interfaith affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, as warning that t...
Ambassador's visit to highlight continuing conflicts in Sudan, Saharan African
by David Rosenberg, Guest Columnist
Feb 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
On Feb. 26 and 27, the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition (PDEC) will welcome to our city outgoing U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Ambassador Princeton Lyman. During his appearanc...
Hartman was a Jewish leader with a complex legacy
by Abby W. Schachter
Feb 13, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jewish people lost a philosopher, a teacher and force of nature on Feb. 10 when Rabbi David Hartman passed away at the age of 81. Rabbi Hartman’s influence can be felt far and wide, through hi...
War on bullying
Feb 13, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
We suspect most, if not all, of you know someone who is a bully or has been bullied. Maybe that someone is you. If you were bullied, you know it can be a life-scarring experience, something that af...
Obama’s visit to Israel shows commitment to state, peace
by Ivan Frank, Guest Columnist
Feb 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
The American Jewish community in all its various facets — synagogues, federations, lobbies, Zionist movements, and rabbinical councils — was taken by surprise when President Obama announced that hi...
Ex-Mossad head: ‘Haredization’ trumps Iran as threat
by Gary Rosenblatt
Feb 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — It’s not often that Middle East events surprise Efraim Halevy, who served in the Mossad for 28 years (including four as director) and who also was head of the National Security Council a...
Common Ground Koch
Feb 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
In the last interview of his life, with CNN’s Piers Morgan, Edward I. Koch described himself as a secular Jew who nevertheless believed in God, and reward and punishment. “I expect to be rewarded,”...