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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 | 4 4 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 | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Archives
History: Dividing Jerusalem a bad idea
Dec 31, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Ask any Israeli or Diaspora Jew who is old enough to remember, and they’ll tell you. Prior to the Six-Day War in 1967, Jews couldn’t enter the Old City in Jerusalem. The Western Wall, Judaism’s hol...
Pittsburgh native describes how immersion in Israel changed his life
by Samuel Thompson
Guest Columnist
Dec 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Growing up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, my Jewish identity was menoras on the mantelpiece and dreidel-infused door wreaths in December.  After learning about the nuances of Judaism and ...
Women have equal rights at the Wall
Dec 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Thursday, Dec. 17, was a day that passed quietly in Jewish Pittsburgh, but it shouldn’t have. That was the designated day of international solidarity with the Israeli organization Women of the Wall...
Private social clubs are past their prime, which isn’t bad
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Dec 23, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Much has been made about the demise of the Concordia Club, that venerable Oakland-based Jewish social club that closed its doors this year after 135 years of operation. Clearly, the Concordia made ...
Rabbis’ courage defies Israeli-Arab violence
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Dec 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
I was a young reporter in Morgantown, W.Va., on Feb. 25, 1994 — the day Baruch Goldstein, an American-born Israeli physician and right-wing extremist, committed the heinous Cave of the Patriarchs M...
Where would Israel be without its democratic–socialist roots?
by Ivan Frank
Guest Columnist
Dec 16, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Readers of modern Israeli history understand that the people of Israel and world Jewry are focused on Israeli security, a peace agreement with the Palestinians, economic growth and many domestic is...
Palin’s Israel position must be seen in true perspective
by Rachel Tabachnick
Guest Columnist
Dec 10, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
The JTA article, about Sarah Palin, which appeared in the Nov. 26 edition of The Jewish Chronicle (“Palin joins other GOP prospects in slamming Obama on Israel”), failed to acknowledge significant ...
Torah, environmental activism go hand-in-hand
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Dec 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, is under way, and the Jewish world is paying close attention. Jewish leaders are in Copenhagen armed with a statement signed ont...
Beyond the Holocaust, a class in waiting
Dec 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Congratulations to Jim Lucot, a history teacher in the Seneca Valley School District, and winner of this year’s Robert I. Goldman award from the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. He accepted his...
What do we owe our intermarried congregants?
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Dec 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
So I was sitting around the table with my New Jersey relations on Thanksgiving, doing the normal things — devouring turkey, scarfing down stuffing, choosing between candied yams and sweet potato pi...