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Handy, and You Don’t Need a Match to Light Up

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It’s the electric menorah of the Facebook generation — more than two-dozen applications that smartphone users can download to do just about anything Chanukah related short of eating latkes. Itching to play dreidel? There’s an app for that. Can’t remember whether mom likes milk- or dark-chocolate gelt? There’s an app for that. Ran out of Chanukah candles? Yes, there’s even...

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It's Going Right Through the Woof!

Match-making for dogs/possible owners? Yes, they canine!

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Tula Batanchiev, JE Feature

It was 7:15 on a Monday morning and Chase Muttley was circling the dining-room table in the Fishbein household, four of the five family members running after the 1-year-old Yorkiepoo. For most families, this would have been an aggravating, if not overwhelming, experience, but Rachel Ezekiel-Fishbein and her husband, Joel, looked at one another and started laughing. "This dog has...

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Recon Groups Draw a Bit Closer to a Merger

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Bryan Schwartzman

<div id="articlecontent">The Jenkintown-based Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, the movement's congregational arm has moved one step closer to merging with the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote. Proponents have said that a unified group could better serve synagogues and promote awareness of a distinct brand of Judaism. And the hope is that a restructuring would cut costs. At...

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Survivor With Local Ties to Receive Freedom Medal

Gerda Weissman Klein, a Holocaust survivor with a Narberth-based educational foundation bearing her name, will be honored by President Barack Obama with a Medal of Freedom. Klein, who survived the notorious death march at the end of World War II and married her American liberator, has "spoken to audiences of all ages and faiths around the world about the value...

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Cemetery Ad Stirs Up a Stinging Controversy

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Bryan Schwartzman

Although he sensed potential provocation, the general manager of a local Jewish cemetery said he never imagined that his full-page advertisement touting cremation as an alternative to burial would cause such a backlash. "Did you know ... Jewish people are being cremated?" blared the banner in the full-page advertisement for Roosevelt Memorial Park in Trevose in the Oct. 28 issue...