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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 | 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
Disinterment controversy affects cemetery-family covenant
by Joel Pfeffer
Guest Columnist
Jul 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The litigation over a family’s desire to move its father from one cemetery to another 45 years after the original burial raises moral and practical questions that Jewish cemeteries and perhaps thos...
Don’t exclude in the name of inclusion
by Nathan Diament
Guest Columnist
Jul 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Lynn Schusterman, a passionate and impactful philanthropic leader in the American Jewish community, has called upon Jewish organizations to adopt policies that will foster greater incl...
Shalit cause building steam
Jul 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s been a long time coming, but the Obama administration is finally putting some muscle behind its calls for the release of Gilad Shalit. However, to use some boxing jargon, all those who hope an...
The new extended family is here
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The age of the extended family is over. Or is it? There was a time in Jewish neighborhoods (and those of many other ethnic groups) when children, parents and grandparents all lived under one roof —...
If Israel goes down, we all go down
by José María Aznar
Guest Columnist
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
(The following article by the former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar was published in the British newspaper The Times June 17.) For far too long now it has been unfashionable in Europe t...
Public officials must watch their mouths
Jun 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
When Rolling Stone Magazine posted a story called “The Runaway General” to its Web site on Tuesday morning, editors at the rock’n’roll publication likely had no idea that by Tuesday night, Stanley ...
U.S. Jews play ‘historic role’ in campaigning for Israel
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Jun 17, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Since the interdiction-gone-bad of the Gaza flotilla, many Jewish columnists, including two whose work appears in this paper, have called on the Jewish world to go on the PR offensive. That’s easie...
Proposed law sends healthy message
Jun 17, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Israel’s trouble with the media has long plagued the country with what many call a “PR War,” meaning that the message the country wishes to get out is oft mangled by the press, and thereby delivere...
Investigate the flotilla
Jun 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Nations around the world are condemning Israel for its interdiction of a six-ship flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip, specifically of or the fighting aboard Mavi Marmara — the flagship in this self-...
Take the ‘Nazi’ out of political debate
by Abraham H. Foxman
Guest Columnist
May 27, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Passions are high in the wake of Arizona’s adoption of the strongest anti-immigrant bill in the land. Demonstrations, calls to action, threatened boycotts and legal challenges have been ...