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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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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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The new threat
Of all the news items to come out of the Middle East in recent weeks, this one has the potential to be the most serious by far: The Israel Resource News Agency (IRNS) in Jerusalem has reported that...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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opinion
<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 | 6 6 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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Jews should work to reduce fossil fuels, not ally with gas and oil companies
NEW YORK — JTA recently reported on a new alliance between Jewish leaders and domestic gas and oil companies. Called the Council for a Secure America, the alliance is based on a “common interest” b...
May 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gary Rosenblatt
UJA-Fed’s top exec bucked trends in his tenure
NEW YORK — Soon after John Ruskay took over the helm of UJA-Federation of New York in 1999 he gave a major address based on the notion, then prevalent, that Israel had reached a point in its histor...
May 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Archives
Israel not isolated despite gloom and doom reports  
by Danny Brode
Guest Columnist
Jan 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
TEL AVIV — Despite incessant claims of Israel’s isolation from the political opposition, media pundits and U.S. officials, the level of the Jewish state’s bilateral relations with crucial players i...
A good year for energy independence      
Jan 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Looking back, 2011 is shaping up to be a good year for energy independence — and consequently a bad year for the enemies of Israel and the United States. NPR reported last week that for the first t...
Haredi Jews pose serious challenges for Israelis  
by Jay Bushinsky
Dec 30, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — In Israel they are known as people who are “in awe” of the Holy One Blessed Be He.  The Hebrew name for that category of ultra-Orthodox Jews is Haredim.  Most of them live in homogeneou...
Religious conflict getting out of hand      
Dec 30, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Here’s another example of how attacks in Israel by Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews on women’s rights (and safety) are getting bizarrely out of hand: Not even little girls are safe. The Israeli media r...
What Hitchens and Havel shared — Chomsky’s wrath  
by Seth J. Frantzman
Guest Columnist
Dec 30, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — Christopher Hitchens, the acerbic critic, and Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, had one odd thing in common — besides passing away in the same week. They both ran afoul of Noam Chomsky...
Obama’s smart red lines on Iran  
by Joel Rubin
Dec 23, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — The warmongers are back, and this time they’re training their gun sights on Iran. Just check out the Republican presidential debates, where almost all of the candidates cavalierly call...
Why should we care about our candidates’ religious views?  
by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
Guest Columnist
Dec 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES — As the Presidential race progresses, once again the role of religion in politics has re-emerged as a common tension that cannot be dismissed. American Jews have often feared bringing ...
An uncomfortable question      
Dec 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Can Jews be terrorists? Apparently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t think so; at least, not last week when, in response to recent attacks on Israeli soldiers by settlers on the We...
Mind the gap between Orthodox and other Jews
by Gary Rosenblatt
Dec 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — When journalist Peter Beinart talks about the growing alienation between young American Jews and Israel, and with their Jewish practice, he is quick to point out that he isn’t referring ...
Genocide law has necessarily evolved since Holocaust  
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Dec 16, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — On Dec. 11, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 96(I), which declared genocide, defined as “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups,” to be “a ...