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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
An uncomfortable question      
Dec 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Can Jews be terrorists? Apparently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t think so; at least, not last week when, in response to recent attacks on Israeli soldiers by settlers on the We...
Mind the gap between Orthodox and other Jews
by Gary Rosenblatt
Dec 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — When journalist Peter Beinart talks about the growing alienation between young American Jews and Israel, and with their Jewish practice, he is quick to point out that he isn’t referring ...
Genocide law has necessarily evolved since Holocaust  
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Dec 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — On Dec. 11, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 96(I), which declared genocide, defined as “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups,” to be “a ...
Shades of Rosa Parks    
Dec 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
More than half a century after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala. — a defiant gesture that sparked the American Civil Rights Movement — Israel, sadly enough,...
Obama and the do-something Congress  
by Abby Wisse Schachter
Dec 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
President Obama has made it clear; he wants to channel Harry Truman and run for reelection against a do-nothing Congress.    Only trouble is that Congress doesn’t want to oblige, and that includes ...
Infiltrated by CIA spies, Hezbollah takes hits to its prestige, reveals its weaknesses 
by Lee Smith
Guest Columnist
Dec 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — In June, Hezbollah announced that it had captured two, perhaps three, CIA spies who had infiltrated its organization. Last week, the story finally made headlines in the U.S. press. Acc...
UNESCO fuels cultural conflict between Israel, Palestinians
by Anav Silverman
Guest Columnist
Dec 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
It is a clear blue and busy day in the holy city of Hebron. A small crowd of press gathers around Israeli Minister Yuli Edelstein outside the Tomb of Patriarchs.  A bar mitzva celebration is taking...
The RJC’s misstep  
Dec 08, 2011 | 2 2 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
One has to wonder what the Republican Jewish Coalition was thinking when it excluded maverick presidential candidate Ron Paul from its Dec. 7 candidates’ forum while extending invitations to the ot...
Arens’ book sheds new light on Warsaw Ghetto defenders  
by Jay Bushinsky
Dec 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was one of the turning points of World War II.  It was the first armed revolt by European civilians subjected to the brutality of Nazi Germany’s occupation.  ...
Take Golan off the table  
Dec 01, 2011 | 2 2 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
This has been a bad month for Syria’s ruthless dictator, Bashir al-Assad. Maybe Assad thought he could get away with a brutal crackdown on his own people. After all, his father, the equally authori...