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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 | 3 3 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 | 2 2 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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The way government should be
by Abby W. Schachter
Nov 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
“And so my instructions to the federal agency has been, do not figure out why we can’t do something; I want you to figure out how we do something. I want you to cut through red tape. I want you to...
A Holocaust film that must be seen
by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Nov 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Countries, like individuals, have sinister histories from which they cannot escape. At best, they may be able to come to terms with the past, to integrate it into a public consciousness....
What is free speech?
Nov 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
To some justices on the U.S. Supreme Court — a slim majority, in fact — the answer to that question involves money, lots of it. By a 5-4 vote, the High Court in the infamous 2010 case of Citizens U...
Why Palestinians want Israeli citizenship
by Khaled Abu Toameh, Guest Columnist
Nov 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
There is no denying that by applying for Israeli citizenship, in defiance of PLO and Hamas warnings, they are actually making clear that they would rather live under Israeli than any Arab rule. The...
Requiem for a Zionist: Remembering Joseph Eaton
by Bradley Levinson, Guest Columnist
Nov 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
As I was reading in the Chronicle about the recent death of Professor Joseph Eaton, it became apparent that for some people a list of their many life achievements, although well intended, can never...
Don’t mistake criticism of policies as lack of caring for Israel
by Gary Rosenblatt
Nov 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — On the Israel-diaspora front, surprising good news and, unfortunately, not so surprising bad news. First, the bad news. The Oct. 16 arrest and harassment of a woman reciting the Shema pr...
The forgotten issue
Nov 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
With less than a week to go before Americans go to the polls, we feel comfortable stating that this has been a very divisive election. Even the 2000 campaign with its infamous Florida recount is pa...
Christian leaders attack Israel, ignore plight in Arab lands
by David Suissa, Guest Columnist
Oct 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
LOS ANGELES — With Christians being persecuted and threatened across much of the Middle East, guess which country the leaders of several major U.S. Christian denominations have decided to pick on? ...
Is ‘free’ Judaism a good idea?
by Gary Rosenblatt
Oct 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — Maybe I’m just jealous of the free offers being made to young Jews today, but part of me worries that down the road, these well-meaning programs and proposals — like trips to Israel, Hig...
Partnership in progress
Oct 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The Nazi Olympics” exhibit, which opened last week at the August Wilson Center, Downtown, and was brought to Pittsburgh through a joint venture of the center and the Holocaust Center of the Jewish ...