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Letters to the editor May 2
Volunteers lauded At Jewish Family & Children’s Service, volunteers are vital to our mission to provide services for individuals and families throughout our community. As a nonprofit social serv...
May 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor April 25
Pride in our senators Pennsylvanians should be proud that our senator, the Honorable Patrick Toomey, is one of the two leaders who brokered a bipartisan compromise that would expand background ch...
Apr 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor April 18
Register to vote In 1984, a letter from Rav Moshe Feinstein (z’’l) urged the community to register and vote. Interestingly, I was 18 at the time. The letter said that we who live in the United S...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor April 4
Remember the Struma As we read about the “apology” the Turkish prime minister demanded and was delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the pressure of President Obama, it is ...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor March 28
Statement assailed In the 21 March edition of The Jewish Chronicle, Rabbi Alvin Berkun stated, “Frankly, I believe if they had chosen a cardinal from Africa the Jewish community would have probl...
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor March 21
A major fallacy I read Lee Chottiner’s column entitled “Israelis, Palestinians can learn lessons from Africa,” in the March 7 edition. Outgoing U.S. special envoy, Princeton Lyman, while discussi...
Mar 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor March 7
Fair trade coffee touted Last year, in the JFilm Festival’s Short Film [lineup], there was a movie about fair trade coffee. There seems to be various definitions for “fair trade.” My general und...
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor January 31
Community ‘repels’ interfaith couples Abby Schachter’s recent article offered a simple solution to the Jewish “demographic crisis.” To preserve the Jewish community, your children cannot date a g...
Feb 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor January 3
Schechter to president, Congress: ‘Erect meaningful fences’ around weapons (Editor’s note: The following is taken from a Dec. 20 open letter to President Obama and the Members of Congress. It wa...
Jan 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor December 27
URA supports startups I read with great interest Abby W. Schachter's Dec. 20 column, “A Jew runs for city council.” I share Dan Gilman's desire to retain and attract youth and diversity to our ci...
Dec 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor December 20
Jews and gambling [Regarding the recent event in which] local Jewish college students on the verge of finals took a break and had a casino night at the Hillel-JUC: The winners were not the studen...
Dec 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Letters to the editor July 8
Jul 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Congratulations on merger Congratulations to the members and leaders of Tree of Life and Or L’Simcha for their willingness to make the hard choices, which allowed these two congregations to merge...
Letters to the editor July 1
Jul 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
A clear message A radical and nuclear Iran and a genocidal regime in Sudan will no longer be aided with Pennsylvania dollars under a bill that I’ve been working on for five years that is now awai...
Letters to the editor June 17
Jun 17, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
To the world Much has been written about the incident in international waters off of Gaza a few weeks ago. Much of the world is critical over Israel’s embargo and actions. The demanded solution...
Letters to the editor May 27
May 27, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Specter was ‘rare centrist’ Your May 20 article, “Specter lost ground in areas with Jewish voters,” asks, “Why is that?” Specter was that rare centrist who voted mostly blue and sometimes red. An...
Letters to the editor May 20
May 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
Paraphrase corrected You wrote in your April 29 editorial, “Oren the lightening rod:” “Some of those responses were over the top, such as computer science professor Harry Mairson’s. He called Ore...
Letters to the editor May 13
May 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
‘Gonzo Judaism’ rapped I disagree with [Justin Jacobs] on a few basic points in his take on Nile’s Elliot Goldstein’s “Gonzo Judaism” (“Thompson-esque book pushes Jews to look forward, not backwa...
Letters to the editor May 6
May 06, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
More library support needed Libraries are busier than ever during this recession and more access to libraries — not less — is needed. Just consider: •  Last year, when circulation was up 9 percen...
Letters to the editor April 29
Apr 29, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
Unfair coverage I was very upset to read the article in the April 15 Jewish Chronicle titled, “Area Jewish Schools tackle bullying.” I thought your coverage of the day schools was not balanced or...
Letters to the editor April 22
Apr 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Columnist’s position flawed It is most unfortunate that political columnist Abby Wisse Schachter, who wrote “Obama’s Israel strategy”  (April 15) did not have time to research the background fo...
Letters to the editor April 8
Apr 08, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Don’t fret about Tea Party It would be a shame if the April 1 opinion piece, “Tea Party dangers ahead?” worries my fellow Jews into fearing a tide of national opinion that ought to be seen as tim...