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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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editorial
Here’s a safe place
As he spoke last Monday at Rodef Shalom Congregation about civil discourse, Ethan Felson, vice president and general counsel of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, lamented the case of … Peter B...
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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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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opinion
Art education without ethics does students a disservice
Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh was not pleased. During the Antigravity Parade at Carnegie Mellon University this year, a student participated wearing a pontifical shaped crown and barely anything...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gary Rosenblatt
Futurist believes Israel’s leaders could overstep their limits
NEW YORK — David Passig, a professor at Bar-Ilan University, is the first to admit that he is neither a prophet nor a seer. Still, his job is to predict the future, based on the new academic discip...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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<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 | 7 7 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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Archives
Where was Elvis before?
May 27, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Oliver’s Army won’t be marching to Tel Aviv this summer. That’s because pop star Elvis Costello, who composed that signature song, recently announced he is cancelling his planned concerts in Israel...
A Wall, a fence, a partition mark visit to Israel
by Malke Frank
Guest Columnist
May 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
The rooster crowed at 4:30 a.m. Anticipating the wake-up call from the hotel, we were already preparing for our meeting at 6 a.m. with Hannah, age 75, one of the founders of the 10-year-old organi...
Life sentence for Rubashkin would be unfair
by Jeff Stier
Guest Columnist
May 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — People who do bad things should be punished. It is something we learn in our schools and teach in our synagogues. But as Jews, we are often conflicted when one of our own commits a crime...
Why make Chomsky a martyr?
May 21, 2010 | 3 3 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Among Jewish intellectuals, few have been more critical of Israeli actions — and famous for it — than MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky. Over the years, Chomsky, a self-styled anarchist, has bee...
Fighting the new divestment effort on campus
by Wayne L. Firestone
Guest Columnist
May 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The efforts of anti-Israel activists to pass divestment resolutions at the University of California, San Diego and University of California, Berkeley are troubling developments, but no...
Hearing teaches lesson
May 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s unfortunate that the dispute between the Tobin family and Poale Zedeck Congregation deceased over the exhumation of the family’s father wound up in court. We don’t say that because one side ha...
Jewish Heritage Month, and all the others, have to go
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
May 06, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Last Friday, when declaring May Jewish Heritage Month, President Obama had this to say: “The Jewish American story is an essential chapter of the American narrative. It is one of refuge from persec...
Immigration overhaul is a job for the U.S. Congress
by Gideon Aronoff
Guest Columnist
May 06, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and those of us who believe in compassionate and fair immigration laws are in complete agreement on one thing: The Draconian bill she signed into law on April 23 ...
Don’t ‘show us your papers’
May 06, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
When immigrants successfully become American citizens through naturalization, they deserve to feel at home here. But the bill signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last month seems to jeopardi...
Oren the lightning rod
Apr 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
We’re not surprised by the controversy being generated by a major university’s announcement that Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, will be its commencement speaker. We are sur...