Clifford Rieders

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Mar 11, 2025, 5:35 PM

Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick

Theordore “Teddy” Roosevelt has been known to generations of Americans for his pithy but accurate description as to how to handle foreign affairs: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Is Donald Trump doing the opposite? Is he speaking...

Mar 5, 2025, 6:28 AM

A Law Book on Antisemitism – About Time

From my research, there is not one textbook written on antisemitism for use in United States law schools. There are textbooks on all kinds of other acts of discrimination. There are textbooks on diversity, equity, and inclusion. There are...

Mar 5, 2025, 2:12 AM

The Bear and the Eagle Embrace

Why would the President and the Vice President of the United States sell Ukraine out to Russia? The answer given by the left is that the Administration is a bunch of fascists who suck up to other fascists like...

Feb 27, 2025, 10:40 PM

Government by Decree

One of the complaints against modern government is that it has become administration by decree. Presidents rely upon what is essentially lawmaking prerogative by virtue of Executive orders. The founders of the United States created a coequal branch in the...

Feb 27, 2025, 7:01 PM

The Mood is Defiant

The mood in Israel can only be described as defiant. As I write this, a mother and her two children, babies really, were supposed to be returned in their black coffins together with a fourth, an 84-year-old grandpa. As...

Feb 5, 2025, 10:44 PM

Protecting Americans Here and Abroad Against Terrorism

The Rieders Foundation is proud to have acted as an amici curiae in the case of Miriam Fuld vs. Palestinian Liberation Organization, et al., in the United States Supreme Court, and to have served as an advisor to counsel...

Feb 5, 2025, 3:51 PM

A Shot in the Foot

I was talking with an old friend, a self-described “lefty,” and he was not talking about using his left hand either. He was decrying President Trump and the horrors that he believes Trump will bring upon the United States...

Jan 29, 2025, 9:15 PM

Sitting in Tel Ha Shomer Hospital in Israel is even more stressful and absorbing than reading about national and international geopolitics. While we sit here in the hospital, a “hostile deal” has been hammered out between Israel and Hamas. Now...

Jan 22, 2025, 2:07 AM

Is this what peace looks like?

Today in our small synagogue in Be’er Yaakov, Shabbat, the place was packed. This is a small building, maybe 60 feet by 40 feet, looks like a pillbox. It is masonry with four windows, steel bars across each. It...

Jan 16, 2025, 6:18 PM

Another Adventure

On our way to Israel to visit our daughter and help her out with an ill grandchild, our youngest at only 6 months, we encountered an adventure that we will be able to tell our grandchild about. The idea...

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About Me

Cliff Rieders is a Board Certified Trial Advocate in Williamsport, is Past President of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and a past member of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority.