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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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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 | 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
Michael Sfard: ‘I don’t care about history’
by Michael M. Vanyukov, Guest Columnist
Apr 05, 2013 | 4 4 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
I went to Michael Sfard's lecture last week at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law with a heavy heart. Why? Because even though Sfard, a young Israeli attorney, is called a “human rights law...
Prayers from the Holocaust: Beyond Yom Hashoa
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
 NEW YORK — One reason why Cantor Azi Schwartz, our cantor at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City, is one of the foremost cantors of our day is his refusal to allow Jewish liturgy to become rote...
Obama accomplishes much in 3-day span
by Joel Rubin
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — It’s a good day for the United States when its president goes abroad and receives cheers for challenging conventional wisdom while advancing our country’s core interests.  Doing so req...
The new threat
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
We talk a good game about unity
by Gary Rosenblatt
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — How much, if any, cooperation and collaboration can there be — or should there be — among Reform, Conservative and Orthodox communities, starting with their rabbis? At times we talk a go...
Mission accomplished?
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Had President Obama gone to the Middle East last week to restart direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, his mission would have to be labeled a failure. But that’s not why he went. ...
Bibi or Obama right about energy?
Mar 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
President Obama has said, “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are,” Jeffrey Goldberg reports. With the president visiting Israel, the time seems right to assess Obama’s perception. Do...
Bibi, Francis and us
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Vatican has a new pope. Israel has the same prime minister, but with a different cabinet. And the question American Jews are left to ask is, how will these changes affect us? Answer: Not much, ...
Passover Jews vs. Purim Jews: The agony of our dilemma
by Yossi Klein Halevi
Mar 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — As I travel through North American Jewish communities, on a lecture tour about Israeli society in the aftermath of the elections, I sometimes feel as though I am in a time warp. Visitin...
Disturbing questions
Mar 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The statements of Egyptian human rights activist Samira Ibrahim and Egyptian Ambassador to the United States Mohamed Tawfik point up a dangerous dichotomy facing Israel and her neighbor to the sout...