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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons
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Taylor Jones, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico
Obama and Nixon
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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
Takin’ it to the streets — not
Oct 01, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
We would have much preferred to picture proud Jews on our front page waving Israeli flags in front of so iconic a Pittsburgh landmark as the statue of the late Mayor Richard Caliguiri. Sadly, that’...
Is J Street pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian?
by Morton A. Klein
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Is J Street a pro-Israel group? It never tires of claiming that it is. Yet, what pro-Israel group would invite a man to speak at its forthcoming conference who has called for Israel’s destruction, ...
Goldstone report flawed, but Israel should investigate its military
by Marc D. Stern
Guest Columnist
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK — The Goldstone report is severely flawed, perhaps fatally. At the same time, some of the allegations it makes deserve serious consideration by Israel. The Goldstone mission was conceived ...
Where are the Jews at the G-20?
Sep 24, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
OK, let’s be frank. The G-20 Summit this week in Pittsburgh is, as we say in newspapers, a dog and pony show. But it’s a good dog and pony show. It’s also a high-profile dog and pony show. With mor...
Jewish Pittsburgh must look ahead to save the Covenant
by Steven A. Diaz
Guest Columnist
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
I will try to articulate the importance and urgency of the matter of The Covenant one final time. This is, in my mind, a moral imperative. There is a real opportunity to bring the secured creditors...
Changing our campuses from polarized to pro-peace
by Lauren Barr
Guest Columnist
Sep 17, 2009 | 1 1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
WASHINGTON — Last spring, a pro-Palestinian club at American University in this city built a big tent on the main quad. Inside were posters demanding an immediate end to occupation. Outside the ten...
H1N1 and High Holidays
Sep 17, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, but an influenza pandemic is threatening to change the way we observe the High Holidays. National Public Radio reported Tuesday that houses of worship are adjustin...
Who are Israel’s accusers?
by Gerald Steinberg
Guest Columnist
Sep 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
JERUSALEM — One of Human Rights Watch’s common refrains is the demand for “independent investigations” based on the allegation that Israel is unable to conduct its own inquiries. Officials at the o...
Prepare for contraction
Sep 10, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Here’s a stark prediction: In 20 years, many of the 26 Jewish congregations in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County — perhaps even half of them — will no longer exist. They will have either merged with ...
The biblical and rabbinic roots of Ted Kennedy’s politics
by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield
Guest Columnist
Sep 03, 2009 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Hailed by many as perhaps the greatest senator of the 20th century, Ted Kennedy died following a 15-month-long battle with brain cancer. I don’t know if he really was the greatest senator, but he w...