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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 | 6 6 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 | 3 3 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 | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Archives
Proper recognition due
Oct 08, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Several years ago, in Morgantown, W.Va., veterans organized a Memorial Day ceremony outside the courthouse there: Nothing surprising, veterans across the country always remember their fallen comrad...
Medieval Sephardic poet shows us how to choose civility
by Erica Brown
Guest Columnist
Oct 08, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Having shepherded hundreds of people through Jewish leadership workshops, I am asked frequently why we don’t have better, more competent Jewish leaders — lay and professional — in ...
Where the blogosphere meets the boardroom
by Jordan Namerow, Joelle Asaro Berman, Joanna Kabat, Jeremy Moskowitz
Guest Columnists
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
REISTERSTOWN, Md. — It’s no secret that the mention of federation is often met with blank stares among 20-something Jews. You’re far less likely to find young Jewish adults today who consider the N...
Takin’ it to the streets — not
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
We would have much preferred to picture proud Jews on our front page waving Israeli flags in front of so iconic a Pittsburgh landmark as the statue of the late Mayor Richard Caliguiri. Sadly, that’...
Is J Street pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian?
by Morton A. Klein
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Is J Street a pro-Israel group? It never tires of claiming that it is. Yet, what pro-Israel group would invite a man to speak at its forthcoming conference who has called for Israel’s destruction, ...
Goldstone report flawed, but Israel should investigate its military
by Marc D. Stern
Guest Columnist
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — The Goldstone report is severely flawed, perhaps fatally. At the same time, some of the allegations it makes deserve serious consideration by Israel. The Goldstone mission was conceived ...
Where are the Jews at the G-20?
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
OK, let’s be frank. The G-20 Summit this week in Pittsburgh is, as we say in newspapers, a dog and pony show. But it’s a good dog and pony show. It’s also a high-profile dog and pony show. With mor...
Jewish Pittsburgh must look ahead to save the Covenant
by Steven A. Diaz
Guest Columnist
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
I will try to articulate the importance and urgency of the matter of The Covenant one final time. This is, in my mind, a moral imperative. There is a real opportunity to bring the secured creditors...
Changing our campuses from polarized to pro-peace
by Lauren Barr
Guest Columnist
Sep 17, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Last spring, a pro-Palestinian club at American University in this city built a big tent on the main quad. Inside were posters demanding an immediate end to occupation. Outside the ten...
H1N1 and High Holidays
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, but an influenza pandemic is threatening to change the way we observe the High Holidays. National Public Radio reported Tuesday that houses of worship are adjustin...