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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons
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Taylor Jones, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
Obama and Nixon
Taylor Jones, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
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editorial
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 | 5 5 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 | 6 6 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 | 3 3 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 | 2 2 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 | 2 2 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 | 5 5 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
Penn State and the sins of Sodom
by Rabbi Paul Tuchman, Temple B’nai Israel, White Oak
Guest Columnist
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
By coincidence, the week that the tide of scandal overwhelmed Penn State was the same week whose Torah portion described the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomora. We read that the sins of ...
Shocked by a child sexual abuse case in Happy Valley? Why not?
by Rochelle Sufrin
Guest Columnist
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
The story of our children — our communities’ most vulnerable members, being abused sexually or otherwise, by someone they trusted, someone with intrinsic power and control over them, is not new. T...
Why does Congress want to make us blind in Iran?
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — As the world ratchets up pressure on Iran because of its nuclear activities, there’s one key international organization that deserves most of the credit for showing us what Iran is — a...
Honor thy children
Nov 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
One of our readers recently approached a member of our staff and asked a question that is well beyond our collective pay grades: Does Judaism teach us to honor our children? OK, we’re journalists, ...
Two-state solution unrealistic; one-state solution isn’t
by Jay Bushinsky
Nov 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — It took a truly open mind as well as journalistic courage for a mainstream Israeli newspaper to publish an editorial calling for a single-state solution to the dispute with the Palestin...
Marking Kristallnacht without my father
by Janet R. Kirchheimer
Guest Columnist
Nov 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
This is the 73rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, and the first one I will mark without my father.  Kristallnacht is referred to as the “night of broken glass.” But it was much more. It was the beginn...
Israel’s response to rocket attacks key to preventing future conflict
by Isi Leibler
Guest Columnist
Nov 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Israel’s tepid response to the latest stream of missiles launched against us from Gaza is chillingly reminiscent of our failure to adequately respond to this threat since the advent of the primitiv...
Papers please
Nov 10, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether a U.S. citizen may have stamped in his passport, “Jerusalem, Israel,” as his place of birth. It’s a tricky issue for the U.S. government...
Schachter may not value library, but Pittsburgh does
by Sheila May-Stein
Guest Columnist
Nov 03, 2011 | 3 3 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
As I finished Abby Schachter’s article on the proposed library funding initiative, all I could thinks was, “Seriously?” The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is a cultural jewel. It provides unparalle...
How best to improve Pittsburgh living
by Corey O'Connor
Guest Columnist
Nov 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
My name is Corey O’Connor, and I am a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh’s 5th Council District. If I am elected to City Council Nov. 8, my top priority will be improving our quality of life by concen...