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Smith Speaks Up 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
For most of the year, pundits gave Tom Smith, the 65-year-old Democrat-turned-Republican from Armstrong County, little chance of unseating U.S. Sen. Bob Casey. But the coal industry executive and poli...
Complex Questions of Interfaith 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
Jake Boise has a Jewish father and a Presbyterian mother, but the Cheltenham High School senior's religious identity appears straightforward: He was raised as a Reform Jew, attended a Jewish preschool...
AJC Starts Program for Diplomats 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
The American Jewish Committee's Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey Chapter has unveiled a new program aimed at educating foreign diplomats based in the Philadelphia region about the concerns of Isra...
Englander Reflects on Short Stories 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
Nathan Englander's short story "Sister Hills" uses the West Bank as its canvas, but avoids overt political statements. The author focuses on two women left alone during wartime, driven to take desper...
Rabbis Still Awaiting Pay Equity in Israel 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
Rabbi Miri Gold's paycheck looks the same today as it did six months ago, despite the Israeli attorney general's decision in May stipulating that Gold and other Reform and Conservative rabbis in certa...
Maccabi USA Honors Sports Legends 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
Maccabi USA honored more than 20 "legends and heroes" of the Maccabiah Games with Philadelphia-area ties at an Oct. 22 Gala event in Center City. Jason Lezak The honorees included Dolph Schayes, the...
Study: No Anti-Israel Push on Campus 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
Washington (JTA) -- Ninety-seven percent of U.S. and Canadian college campuses report no anti-Israel or anti-Semitic events, and the campus-based anti-Israel divestment effort has failed, according to...
Target of Discussion 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
ANALYSIS Washington Israel and the Iranian nuclear program may have been among the main topics in this week's presidential debate on foreign policy, but the clashing candidates sounded surprisingly s...
JFCS Reduces Hospital Chaplains 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
In a cost-cutting move, the Jewish Family and Children's Service ofGreater Philadelphia has decided to reduce by half the number of hospitals it serves with its chaplaincy program. But the agency's di...
Western Wall Arrest Galvanizes Groups 25 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am
Ben Sales and Neil Rubin Jewish Telegraphic Agency TEL AVIV Last week's episode was hardly the first time Israeli police stopped activist Anat Hoffman while she was leading a women's prayer service at...
