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Trump Taps Mike Huckabee to Be Ambassador to Israel
President-elect Donald Trump named Mike Huckabee as his ambassador to Israel, picking an evangelical Christian who favors ...
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Mazel Tov
Gratz College recently announced that Dr. Brendan Goldman has been named the inaugural holder of the Dr. Saul Philip Wachs Chair of Jewish Life ...
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Jesse Bernstein Takes Judaism to the Stage
Theater and Judaism have always been Bernstein’s passions, but uniting the two is an opportunity that came about recently. A ...
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Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation to Hold Event Commemorating Kristallnacht
On Sunday, Nov. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m, the foundation will commemorate the 86th anniversary of what many consider to be the ...
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What Would Matt Baldacci Do? The Collaborator Mentality Returns
Like many Jews of my generation, I would occasionally wonder how the non-Jews in my midst would have behaved during the ...
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A Problem Named Johnson
There is something very disturbing going on in Chicago. And the Jewish community is concerned. Chicago is the third-largest city in the United States. It is a vibrant city that has long prided itself ...
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You Should Know…Rabbi Chaim Goldstein
Rabbi Chaim Goldstein grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, home to the state’s flagship university, where his parents ran the school’s thriving Chabad house. He knew from a young age that he too wanted to ...
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Shir Ami Rises to the Challenge
Members of the Shir-Shelter Project Committee, from left to right: Jon Stevens, Jackie Luber, Ellen Rawicz, Randi Cohen and Rabbi Eric Goldberg (Courtesy of Randi Cohen) When Shir Ami members Randi ...
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Community Rallies Around Mikveh Israel Following Antisemitic Vandalism
Following antisemitic attacks at Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia in late October, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia held a press conference on Oct. 30 with leaders of other ...
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Har Zion Brings in Well-Known New York Rabbi for Book Talk
Susan Kochman and Sheila Kliger (Courtesy of Michael Greenspoon and Har Zion Temple) Sheila Kliger is part of the group of congregants at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley that organizes the “Open a Book ...
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Israel’s UNRWA Challenge
On Oct. 28, an overwhelming majority of Israel’s Knesset adopted two bills to outlaw the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The first bans the agency from operating on Israeli sovereign territory ...