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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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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 | 7 7 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 | 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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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
Raining on the parade
by Gary Rosenblatt
Jun 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — To be clear: I have been a big booster of the Celebrate Israel parade, personally and professionally, for many years, and once again felt a real sense of pride on Sunday, June 3, afterno...
‘Polish Death Camps’ uproar an unwarranted outrage
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Jun 15, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Any objective observers reading of the Polish prime minister’s and foreign minister’s overreactions to an innocent phraseological error — and that is all it was — by President Obama cou...
The Kafka case
Jun 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s the kind of story Franz Kafka would have written, and ironically enough, he is at the center of it. A three-year-old court case in Israel over the ownership of Kafka’s papers, which may or may...
‘Unmasked’ a clarion call to Jewish world, filmmaker says
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jun 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
“Unmasked: Judeophobia and the Threat to Civilization,” which the Zionist Organization of America-Pittsburgh District will screen, Monday, June 11, 7 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center of Greater...
President Obama is a friend of Israel
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Jun 08, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — The Obama administration’s actual record is far more instructive than politically inspired rhetoric in providing guidance in this year’s presidential election campaign. It is clear that ...
Breakthrough
Jun 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Rabbi Miri Gold was understandably excited by the news of her new pay grade, and for good reason. It’s not every day a non-Orthodox rabbi in Israel gets paid by the government. In fact, it’s never ...
Negotiations with Iran will require compromise
by Joel Rubin
Jun 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — As negotiations aimed at controlling Iran’s nuclear program continue and all sides report serious and productive discussions, two things are crystal clear. First, America’s national se...
Echoes of Syrian violence in Lebanon
by Daniel Brode and Roger FarHat
Guest Columnists
Jun 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV — Nine Lebanese were killed after days of clashes in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli between long-time bitter foes, the Sunni dominated Bab al-Tabbaneh and the Alawite Jabal Mohsen n...
Peace in Israel — and around it
Jun 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
It wasn’t so long ago that Time magazine carried a shocking, and inaccurate, headline on its cover, “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace.” We said this at the time that provocative issue came out, ...
The case for same-sex marriage — a civil right
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
May 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Let’s assume for a moment that a presidential candidate of either party had come out against interracial marriage.  How many of us would be inclined to vote for him or her? Until 1967, w...