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Mitzvah Circle’s Fran Held: Helping Those in Need
Fran Held has always cared about homelessness, food insecurity and poverty. She worked on behalf of various organizations ...
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In Philadelphia, the Message on Israel Is Clear: Work Hard, Remain Hopeful
The Jewish Federations of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey expressed commitment to maintaining aid for Israel as ...
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In Year 284, Congregation Mikveh Israel Preserves Multiple Treasured Traditions
We’re not the matzo-ball-eating and lox-and-schmear community that most people associate with [American Jews] or their bubbes ...
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Tree of Life Murderer Exempted from Biden’s Commutation Order
The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s federal death sentence remains intact, after President Joe Biden commuted 37 of the 40 ...
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Vladimir Putin Accuses ‘Ethnic Jews’ of Tearing Apart the Russian Orthodox Church
Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots." ...
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YOU SHOULD KNOW … Michael Zimmerman
The new interior of Makom Community was designed by Michael Zimmerman, an architect whose daughter Norah, 8, attends the ...
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Small but Mighty: Tiferes B’nai Israel Looks Forward to Its Second Century in Philadelphia
The year was 1958 and Susan Dorfman’s family had just bought a house in Warrington, Pennsylvania. The Dorfmans were driving ...
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Tel Aviv-Area School Hit by Houthi Missile Fired from Yemen
A ballistic missile fired from Yemen severely damaged a Tel Aviv-area school early Thursday morning, in some of the most ...
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YOU SHOULD KNOW … Jonah Abrams
Jonah Abrams is a 33-year-old husband and father who was raised in a Reconstructionist family in Elkins Park. He spent many ...
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For Cynthia Stein, the Slipper Fits
Cynthia Stein is currently the first woman president of the Golden Slipper Summer Camp in the Poconos, the most well-known ...
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As He Prepares to Bid Farewell, Sen. Ben Cardin Reflects on Over a Half-Century of Public Service
There are noticeable signs that change is in the air. Moving boxes are visible and there are empty spaces on some of the walls where photos had been hung. Yet the mood in Sen. Ben Cardin’s office is ...