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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 | 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
When praying is dangerous, state must step in
Feb 18, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
This paper has previously taken up the cause of Women at the Wall, a group of pious Jewish women who want nothing more than to peacefully worship their God at Judaism’s holiest site — the Western W...
Morality first in Eitam debate
Feb 09, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
As Jews, questioning things is part of our cultural DNA. The most common question of the week may certainly be, “why haven’t the plows come through our street yet?” Recently, though, another slew o...
Hezbollah gains a toehold inside U.N. Security Council
by Kenneth Bandler
Guest Columnist
Feb 04, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is not likely to take a seat at the U.N. Security Council’s horseshoe table, but the Hezbollah terrorist organization he has led since 1992 now has a toehold insid...
Demand real justice
Feb 04, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
When Republican senatorial candidate Pat Toomey met The Chronicle staff last week, he made it clear he opposed trying Guantanamo detainees in civilian courts — either here in western Pennsylvania, ...
Tel Aviv is fun, but writer came for Israel
by Ashley Gold
Chronicle Correspondent
Feb 04, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV — It has been 13 days since I arrived in Tel Aviv for my semester abroad, and I can safely say that this experience so far has been entirely different than the Taglit-Birthright trip I wen...
J Street, ZOA should strive to find common ground
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jan 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
With J Street Pittsburgh, the local chapter of the nation’s liberal Zionist organization, set to kick off its operations here next week with a celebration, now is a good time to talk about common g...
Making the case for a two-state solution from the ground up
by Jeremy Ben-Ami
Guest Columnist
Jan 28, 2010 | 2 2 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
I’ve spent a lot of my life in Washington — watching first-hand as “inside the Beltway” machers seek to effect change from the top down.  I’ve watched- and learned from — activists and advocates wh...
Seize the opportunity
Jan 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The Jewish world has taken great pride this past week over the response to the earthquake in Haiti by Israel, as well it should. Israel was the first on the ground with a state-of-the-art hospital....
It takes more than a hacker to silence the press
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jan 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Someone launched a cyber attack on The Jewish Chronicle’s Web site. The hackers replaced graphics on the home page with a Palestinian flag and the words “Hacked by Palestinian Mujaheeds.” A message...
Turkish hypocrisy
Jan 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s not surprising that Danny Ayalon was forced to apologize last week after dressing down Turkey’s ambassador to Israel for that country’s broadcast of programs depicting Israeli soldiers as brut...