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Taylor Jones, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
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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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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 | 6 6 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 | 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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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 | 6 6 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
Respect Neighborhood Watch
May 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Like much of America, we’re watching the Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman case in Florida, but we’ll take no position on it before the courts rule. We’re also following a similar case in Baltimore ...
Mike Wallace: A dissent
by Eric Rozenman
Guest Columnist
Apr 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Praise for Mike Wallace as a probing investigative reporter saturated news media immediately after his death April 7 at age 93. Virtually all tributes omitted the fact that when it came to anti-Isr...
Changing the bar, bat mitzva experience
by Gary Rosenblatt
Apr 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Did you chant a haftora at your bar or bat mitzva? Do you remember what it was about? Have you chanted any others since then? Rabbi Joy Levitt, executive director of the Jewish Community...
Business opportunity
Apr 28, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
U.S. Rep. David McKinley may soon look like a soothsayer of sorts. Several months ago, the freshman Republican from Wheeling, W.Va. — fresh from his first visit to Israel, courtesy of AIPAC — discu...
Next year in Hebrew
by Abby Wisse Schachter
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
We are between two big moments on the Jewish calendar, Passover and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day). During the Passover seder, we wish for next year in Jerusalem. On Yom Ha’atzmaut, we ...
Yeshiva School teens ruminate over long term future of Jewish faith
by Sara Deray & Mushkie Cohen
Guest Columnists
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor’s note: As part of our “The Future of …” series, the Chronicle invited students from the community’s three high schools — Yeshiva Schools, Hillel Academy and J-Site — to write about how te...
What happened at the J-Street conference
by Ivan C. Frank
Guest Columnist
Apr 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
J Street’s third national conference, ”Making History,” took place in March in Washington, D.C., attracting more than 2,500 participants, of which 650 were students from 125 schools. As a longtime ...
Pitt’s teachable moment
Apr 21, 2012 | 4 4 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
There have been 50-plus bomb threats at the University of Pittsburgh since February and not a single bomb has been found, let alone gone off. Good thing we live in Pittsburgh and not Israel. There,...
How Eisenhower should be remembered  
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — In a genuine spirit of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats should all be able to agree that Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower was one of the great military leaders of the 20th century. ...
The case for a West Bank settlement boycott
by Michael Zigmond
Guest Columnist
Apr 12, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
(Editor’s note: the following is in response to Gary Rosenblatt’s March 29 column, which criticized Peter Beinart’s call for a boycott of West Bank products.) Imagine that a well-known American...