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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 | 3 3 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 | 2 2 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 | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Archives
Kristallnacht and beyond: The specter returns
by Robert Wistrich
Guest Columnist
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
On Nov. 9, 1938, a massive nationwide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich. The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was th...
The real perpetrators
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Gen. Amos Yadlin had two pieces of bad news for the Israeli Knesset — and the world — on Tuesday. First, he said the Iranian nuclear facility under construction inside a mountain near the city of Q...
Partnership, not placards, is the way to answer the BDS movement
by Deborah Fidel
Guest Columnist
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Last weekend, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a three-day BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) conference at the University of Pittsburgh. This movement was founded in 2005 by a co...
In rebuttal Israeli studies at Pitt given serious treatment
by Alexander Orbach
Guest Columnist
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Assuming that the study of Israel is inadequately represented in the curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh, a recent editorial and a letter to The Chronicle have called for the creation of an ...
We need J Street, too
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
In the 60-plus years Jews have debated the future of Israel, one thing is clear: We need both the political left and right to have these debates. The issues are complicated, and neither side of the...
What’s really on trial in the Goldstone report?
by Joel Lion
Guest Columnist
Oct 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — The No. 1 priority of any government is to protect its citizens, whether it be from times of economic instability, crime or foreign threats. Stimulus packages and rebates are given to co...
Plenty of reasons
Oct 22, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
We’re all for Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace. In fact, this paper has long supported a two-state solution, which gives each side the security it needs and the right it deser...
My summer job led me to social justice
by Morris Breitbart
Guest Columnist
Oct 15, 2009 | 2 2 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
As I entered the synagogue of the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University to hear Rabbi Ari Weiss lead a discussion on the Tav HaYosher, an ethical seal for kosher eating establishments, I w...
Campus Judaism needs money
Oct 15, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Everyone is feeling the pinch of a tough economy, and everybody is forced to make cuts. Some of those cuts, though, hurt more than others. Next week at the University of Pittsburgh, a consortium of...
Saying goodbye to the Concordia Club
by Rochelle Sufrin
Guest Columnist
Oct 08, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
My earliest memories of the Concordia Club are of me as a little girl going to family dinners and parties, excited to know that upon entering the foyer I would be greeted with the warmth and safety...