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May 13, 2026, 8:35 PM

Why Are We Paying So Much for Gas?

The news seems preoccupied with the price of oil, particularly gasoline at the pumps. The consumer is freaking out and for good reason. At the same time, we are told that the United States has the most robust supply of...

Apr 30, 2026, 9:53 PM

Kosher Mishegas

Anybody who has ever tried to make a kosher banquet knows the challenges and joys that only a kosher lifestyle can encompass. The Rieders Foundation decided to sponsor an Israel Bonds Banquet in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Banquet for 40 years...

Apr 25, 2026, 12:53 AM

The New Antisemitism is Old

The current playbook coming from the far left and the far right in connection with the war to prevent a nuclear armed Iran, is to claim that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, somehow manipulated the bizarre and...

Apr 22, 2026, 12:19 AM

What Is The Holocaust Really About?

What should Holocaust education be about? This has become a matter of some debate in the United States and worldwide. Recently, the issue reared its complex head in connection with an organization on whose Board I serve. The current...

Apr 16, 2026, 9:55 PM

The Anti-Catholic Bias and American Politics

The anti-Catholic bias goes back a long way in American politics. The Founders of this country justify, in part, in the First Amendment Separation of Church and State on the fear of the Catholic Church, and in particular its...

Mar 24, 2026, 12:40 AM

Munich – Memory of Horrors

I once interviewed a young German national who applied for a job. I wanted to see how he would handle a difficult question. I pointed out to him that I was Jewish and that most of my mother’s family...

Mar 20, 2026, 10:43 PM

Leaving Israel at this time of war, with family in Israel and the United States, is not an easy feeling to describe. We feel as though we have abandoned our people in Israel in their eternal struggle to survive...

Mar 19, 2026, 12:35 PM

Triple Alliance of Power

Iran, always interested in wreaking havoc, has now made it very difficult to ship oil through the Strait of Hormuz. A significant amount of the world’s oil flows through this dangerous place. Iran has always held the world hostage...

Mar 12, 2026, 4:30 AM

The Cost of Success

Many people have asked me what is it with Chabad? Why does a guy like Tucker Carlson who knows nothing about Judaism, less about Chabad, and very little even about Christianity suddenly go on the attack against Chabad, followed...

Mar 9, 2026, 9:16 PM

Gimme a break. What is going on in this crazy world? Israel, United States, Turkey, and every Arab nation in the Middle East has taken a position against Iran. They are actually working together and cooperating to put Iran and...

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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.