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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 | 5 5 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 | 6 6 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 | 3 3 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 | 2 2 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 | 3 3 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 | 5 5 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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Archives
Making progress
Aug 06, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
This week, columnist Gary Rosenblatt takes all corners of the Jewish world to task for holding preconceived notions about other Jews who are, apparently, more (or less) religious than themselves. R...
The camping experience should continue despite tragedy
by Rabbi Chuck Diamond
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
I have recently returned from my 35th summer at Camp Ramah in Canada. Summer camp is a wonderful place where many of us go to get away from the demands of the world around us — a respite, although ...
Playing loose with history and law in the settlement debate
by Richard L. Cravatts
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
In an effort to back pedal on Vice President Joe Biden’s June 5 observation that Israel would be justified in using its own initiative to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear faciliti...
Who is a convert?
Jul 30, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor’s note: This editorial is reprinted with the permission of The Forward, where it originally appeared.) The biblical Ruth is lucky she isn’t converting to Judaism in 2009. If she ever wants...
Labels are dangerous
Jul 30, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Worse than any prison wall, security barrier or barbed wire fence, words — more specifically, labels — can divide us. We see it in Washington when senators and congressmen bat around labels like li...
Change isn’t easy, but it’s necessary
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Only time will tell if Congregation Beth Shalom’s plan to offer tuition-free religious education is a good idea or not, but it’s nice to see yet another area congregation thinking outside the box. ...
Divestment sleight of hand
Jul 08, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Remember the old saying, be careful what you wish for because you might get it? Well those words could easily apply to the bill introduced by state Rep. Josh Shapiro requiring Pennsylvania’s pensio...
A climactic vote
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Al Franken’s long-awaited victory this week in the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota comes at an opportune time for the country. We don’t say that because Franken is Jewish. Both Franken and his Republ...
Action, not talk, is needed on Holocaust restitution
by Daniel S. Mariaschin
Jul 02, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — It is well past time for the international community to finally and fully do right by Holocaust victims, survivors and their families, and restore property stolen from the Jewish commu...
Israel, Obama and the Settlements: A crisis too good to waste
Jun 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
If President Obama is serious about requiring Israel to cease all settlement activity and is willing to use all the resources at his disposal to accomplish this end, then his actions may serve Isra...