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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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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
A thought for Thanksgiving: Rich or poor on Yom Kippur
by Melissanne Myers
Nov 25, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Early in September my grade-school daughter and I went camping with another single mom and her two kids. The deal was that the other mom would do the driving and pay for the campsite and firewood i...
Concerted effort needed to meet demand for educators
by Jehuda Reinharz
Guest Columnist
Nov 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
WALTHAM, Mass. — The Talmud teaches that if a king of Israel dies, all Jews are eligible to succeed him. But if a scholar dies, we are told, he cannot be replaced. I hope this is not so. Like the t...
In rebuttal: Do we really need J Street? You decide
by Stuart V. Pavilack
Guest Columnist
Nov 19, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
The Oct. 15 editorial in The Chronicle entitled “We need J Street, too,” chastises critics asking about J Street’s funding and politics, and says critics never deal with substance. A few facts: Mo...
Rubashkin convictions mean new beginning
Nov 19, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
Not surprisingly, Sholom Rubashkin is close to spending the rest of his life in prison. Last week, a federal jury in Sioux Falls, S.D., convicted Rubashkin, the 50-year-old former owner of the Ag...
Israel sees a warming in White House position, observer says
by Lee Chottiner
Executive Editor
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Barry Rubin thinks the U.S. position toward Israel is changing — and in Israel’s favor. In a Nov. 1 posting on his blog, The Rubin Report, he noted Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent statem...
President Obama needs to revisit Israel
by Danny Danon
Guest Columnist
Nov 12, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — In the year since President Obama visited Jerusalem as Candidate Obama, much has changed. Running for president, he of course leveraged his presence here to mobilize his supporters in A...
Sanction Lebanon for illegal arms
Nov 12, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Which is more illegal: Israeli settlements in the West Bank or 500 tons of weaponry bound for Hezbollah? The world community is faced with that question since the Israeli navy seized contraband wea...
Kristallnacht and beyond: The specter returns
by Robert Wistrich
Guest Columnist
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
On Nov. 9, 1938, a massive nationwide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich. The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was th...
The real perpetrators
Nov 05, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Gen. Amos Yadlin had two pieces of bad news for the Israeli Knesset — and the world — on Tuesday. First, he said the Iranian nuclear facility under construction inside a mountain near the city of Q...
Partnership, not placards, is the way to answer the BDS movement
by Deborah Fidel
Guest Columnist
Oct 29, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Last weekend, Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a three-day BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) conference at the University of Pittsburgh. This movement was founded in 2005 by a co...