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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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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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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...
Reclaiming what it means to be an American with big plans
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Aug 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — I was born in the Displaced Persons camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany in 1948.  I am the son of two Polish Jews who survived the Nazi death and concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen...
Terroristic tweets
Aug 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Section 219 of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act states that it is unlawful to provide a designated “foreign terrorist organization” (FTO) with “material support or resources,” including "an...
Abby W. Schachter
by Abby W. Schachter
Aug 02, 2012 | 7 7 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Want to bring Jews and Muslims closer together? Promote liberty. This may sound trite, but it is anything but when you consider that Jewish and Muslim religious practice is under assault in Europe ...
A thoughtful response
Aug 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
This past week, Gov. Mitt Romney said many of the right things on his visit to Israel, including his reference to Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. But he had to soften a comment one of...
What will Romney say on his trip abroad?

by Joel Rubin
Jul 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is in the midst of his first international jaunt as the presumptive Republican nominee for president.  This is a moment for him to show the world and the American people...
A diminished entity
Jul 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
It seems as though the International Olympic Committee is willing to hold a moment of silence for the 11 Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich Massacre everywhere except where it truly matters — the O...
What does Bibi want?
by Gary Rosenblatt
Jul 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Israelis call him by his affectionate nickname, Bibi, but few speak of him with warmth. There is no alternative political leader on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean he’s popular at hom...