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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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Israeli checkpoints save lives
Jun 03, 2009 | 3 3 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week, members of the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine demonstrated at the corner of Murray and Forbes avenues. They created mock checkpoints to p...
People-to-people contact with P.A. leaders generates goodwill
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
On a recent trip to Israel, I was reminded of the importance of people-to-people relations in breaking down stereotypes and building cross-cultural relations. As part of Pittsburgh’s Partnership 20...
Groups have options to secure their future
Jun 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — There is hardly a Jewish organization that has been left untouched by the recent economic downturn. The dearth of philanthropic dollars coupled with a drop in fee for service revenue ha...
Speak out on health care reform
by William C. Daroff and Hadar Susskind
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The crisis of health care in America is one that should serve as a call to action for the Jewish community. For more than 47 million Americans, health care is something they simply can...
Law and Justice
May 28, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week, prior to President Obama’s appointment of Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl made a sad, but not so surprising statement. Speaking on “Fox News S...
When reflection surprises you — a Cambodian Yom Hashoa
by Sarah Gross Fife
May 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Each year on Yom Hashoa, we take time as individuals, and as a community, to remember the Shoa, to honor the survivors, to pay tribute to the victims and to recommit ourselves to having an active p...
Joining U.N. rights council is a lost cause
by Gregg J. Rickman
May 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — On May 12, the United States won election to a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. The only reason for joining such a morally bereft institution, however, would be the fan...
Covenant crisis is our crisis
May 21, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
One of the greatest responsibilities facing any Jewish community is caring for its elderly. That’s how we honor our father and mother, as the Torah commands. Jewish Pittsburgh has never ignored thi...
Jewish rights are human rights
by Abby Wisse Schachter
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
An amazing thing happened at Temple Sinai last week: Jews of every stripe — Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist — sat together and listened to Rabbi Avi Weiss describe his principles...
As nurses vanish in this country, their vital role must be stressed
by Nancy Falchuk
May 14, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — From the accelerating debate over national insurance to the recent outbreak of swine flu, health and medical issues are at the top of the news and the center of America’s agenda. The flu...