Newsmakers

Attention, Passengers: Auto-Pilot's at Work!

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The first time Craig Levine flew solo, he was 16 years old, and had to wait for his mother to pick him up at the airfield since he didn't have his driver's license yet. While he's now legally permitted to operate a motor vehicle down here on terra firma, the 45-year-old Blue Bell resident has never really left the friendly...

Newsmakers

She Puts Spirituality on Deck in West Philly

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Jared Shelly

Student rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann wants to create a vibrant Jewish community in West Philadelphia. Helping to invigorate the recently established Kol Tzedek synagogue, Grabelle Herrmann hopes to keep ideas there fresh, and not to hesitate to experiment with conventional ideas about programming and prayer services. Although the new congregation does not have a building - it currently meets at...

Wellness

Smart Thinking

Local MacArthur Fellowship recipient brings prescription safety to the frontlines

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Rita Charleston JE-Feature

Just call Michael Cohen a genius. Although he will modestly refute the title, that's exactly what the prestigious MacArthur Fellows Program is calling the Huntingdon Valley pharmacist in awarding him their recent "genius" grant of $500,000. The MacArthur Fellowship is a five-year grant to individuals who show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work. The program selects...

National

You're Hired? Ex-'Apprentice' Wants to Go to Washington

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Joshua Runyan

He's a reality-show contestant who developed a reputation for hitting on women on national television. She's a veteran legislator who trounced her opponent two years ago in a district that leans slightly in favor of her own party. If you were a betting soul, who would you give the odds to come November? The incumbent, of course, say analysts. Allyson...

Newsmakers

She Works So That No Child Should Ever Know Hunger Again

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Zara Myers

Holocaust survivor, author and lecturer Gerda Klein spoke to thousands of students in the Lower Merion School District last week and challenged them - by using her life story as a model - to feed the hungry so that "no child should know hunger like I did." "She has spent her life striving for human rights throughout the world," proclaimed...