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Synagogue, Developer At Odds Over Casino

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Amid Brouhaha Over IRS, Z Street Gets Its Day in Court

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ADL Regional Head to Retire at Year’s End

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Amid Brouhaha Over IRS, Z Street Gets Its Day in Court

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Bryan Schwartzman

Two years after filing a federal law suit in Philadelphia that claimed pro-Israel groups seeking nonprofit status were unfairly targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, Z Street may finally get its day in court.

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For Love of the Game, Brothers Attended Different Schools

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Eric Berger

After two years of competing against each other in high school basketball, a pair of Penn Valley brothers get to be on the same side as they play for Team USA at the World Maccabiah Games in Israel this July.

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Synagogue, Developer At Odds Over Casino

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Eric Berger

A proposed casino development along North Broad Street would adversely affect Congregation Rodeph Shalom and the surrounding community, the president of the congregation said at a recent Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board public hearing.

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ADL Regional Head to Retire at Year’s End

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Bryan Schwartzman

Barry Morrison, who has spent 35 years with the Anti-Defamation League, announced that he’s stepping down from his position as Philadelphia area director at the end of the year.

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Does Birthright Stifle Teen Travel?

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Bryan Schwartzman

Palestinian violence and financial meltdowns aside, travel program leaders unanimously point to one cause for a dramatic drop in teenage visitors to the Jewish state over the past decade: Taglit-Birthright Israel.