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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 | 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
Suspicion in Syria          
Apr 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
One month ago in this space, we warned about getting involved too fast (and too recklessly) in the fighting in Syria. Regardless of what advocates for involvement — Sen. John McCain and Fouad Ajami...
Iran negotiations will require patience
by Joel Rubin
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Iran is a complex country that defies simple definition.  It possesses a nuclear program increasingly under international scrutiny.  It is regarded by the United States as a state spon...
Freedom, then and now          
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
At its essence, Passover, which begins at sundown Friday, is all about freedom. It’s not about Moses, who is basically omitted from the hagada. In a way, it isn’t even about God — more like the fre...
Is Iraq going fundamentalist?
by Daniel Brode
Guest Columnist
Apr 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV — As a conservative Muslim nation, Iraq is by and large opposed to Western ideals and movements deemed contrary or heretical to Islam. One Western export, the emo subculture — an American-...
Pushing morality, a victim of myopia
by Gary Rosenblatt
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — When I asked a well-known journalist with expertise in the Middle East to review Peter Beinart’s new book, “The Crisis Of Zionism,” he first replied that he’d love to but was crushed wit...
Pay for play          
Mar 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Should the United States set conditions on the release of funds to the Palestinian Authority, such as the planned $88.6 million release in development funds announced last week? We say yes, but bef...
Bibi warmongers while IDF, Mossad chiefs counsel caution
by Dr. Naftali Kaminski
Guest Columnist
Mar 23, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
Watching Netanyahu’s speech at the recent AIPAC conference I recalled something said about Netanyahu long ago: That he was a great orator, but a very small leader. One could argue that no other Isr...
The Jewish imperative for child adoption
by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Guest Columnist
Mar 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES — Millions of children fall asleep every night hungry, wearing an unchanged diaper, and with no one to hold them as they cry themselves to sleep. There is perhaps no greater suffering t...
An intriguing idea          
Mar 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week’s story, which looked at the future of the American synagogue in our “Future of …” series, contained a thought-provoking idea from Rabbi Alex Greenbaum of Beth El Congregation of the Sout...
Obama’s split views on Iran’s nuclear program
by Abraham H. Foxman
Guest Columnist
Mar 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The fact that President Barack Obama so eloquently explained Iran’s nuclear program is a threat to world peace and not only to Israel has been appropriately hailed as a step that is be...