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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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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
Labor Day 2012: Where Jewish and values fairness issues meet
by Stuart Appelbaum, Guest Columnist
Aug 30, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
When Congress declared Labor Day a public holiday in 1894, workers had more to lament than to celebrate: an economic depression, a growing concentration of corporate wealth and power and the brutal...
Akin’s stance is not Judaism’s
Aug 30, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Jewish tradition has its own take on abortion. It balances the welfare of the mother with that of the unborn child. It permits abortions in cases when the life of the mother is endangered, and rabb...
Ross urges Israel to be ‘proactive’ with P.A.
Aug 29, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Dennis Ross, the longtime U.S. diplomat and Middle East expert, says that there has never been a time in its tumultuous history that the State of Israel has faced as many threats and unk...
The present state of Chinese-Israeli relations
by Carice Witte, Guest Columnist
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
The evolution of the relationship between Israel and China has been characterized by general improvement with brief periods of frustration and misunderstanding. Israel was the first country in the ...
Will Israel bomb Iran?
by Joel Rubin
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The loose talk of war is back after a brief period of calm. This is stunning, as the facts about Iran’s nuclear program have not changed since negotiations over its nuclear program be...
Money isn’t everything...
Aug 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
But when your job is to maintain badly needed community services — and to expand them as well — money can be quite a bit indeed. That’s why the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s recent anno...
Romney vs. Obama: Who loves Israel more?
by Gary Rosenblatt
Aug 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK  — Isn’t it nice to see Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama fighting it out over who is Israel’s greater friend and ally? My advice: Sit back and enjoy it while it lasts, but don’t take...
The thankless task
by Daniel Leger, Guest Columnist
Aug 16, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
We tend not to spend a lot of time thinking about what happens to us after we die, but recently Jewish Pennsylvanians have cause to do just that. A law suit filed four years ago by a group of 30 fu...
Whole or divided?
Aug 16, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Jews have an interesting, sometimes conflicting approach to death. On one hand, mourners perform the ritual of keriah — tearing clothing or a black ribbon — symbolic of the renting of garments, wh...
Romney is right, Israel’s economic success due to culture
by Morton Klein, Michael Goldblatt and Dr. Daniel Mandel, Guest Columnists
Aug 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been assailed for saying at a fundraiser in Jerusalem that “culture” plays a large part in Israel’s superior “economic vitality” over th...