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Blacks, Jews Meet to Do Networking, Renew Ties

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Organizers of an Oct. 28 Center City networking event for Jewish and African-American young professionals fretted over whether anyone would show up; the start time was just hours before the first pitch of the World Series. In the end, more than 200 people packed into Restaurant 13 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, swapping business cards and sipping drinks. The hobnobbing...

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For These Eight Women, Bat Mitzvah Ceremony's Better Late Than Never

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Aaron Passman, JE Staff

To hear the residents of Brith Sholom House tell it, Saturdays are usually a fairly quiet affair at the senior living center on Conshohocken Avenue in Philadelphia. This past Saturday, however, was a bit livelier. Not because of Halloween -- that attracts a much younger crowd -- but because of the eight women who celebrated their adult Bat Mitzvah ceremonies...

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Mix of Generations Get Chance to Keep Judaism Alive for Future

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Daphna Berman, JE Feature

It was a typical Bar Mitzvah in many ways: The Bar Mitzvah boy chanted the blessings over the Torah, his family looked on with pride, and when it was all over, the guests danced the hora and enjoyed a festive meal, complete with a blue-and-white sheet cake with the words "Mazel Tov" written across it. But at the recent ceremony...

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Business Web Site Gets Targeted

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Aaron Passman, JE Staff

The Web site for Teva Landscaping, a local business run by native Israeli Ami Dolev, 36, was hacked into and vandalized with anti-Semitic, anti-Israel statements. The messages, which claimed to be from an Algerian hacker, contained the words "StOp War in Al-Aqsa Mosque," [sic] featured graphic photos of victims from recent Israeli conflicts, and referred to Israelis as "the real...

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Lawmakers Tout Efforts Over Iran Sanctions

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Bryan Schwartzman

As the Obama administration awaited an official response from Iran as to whether it would abide by a draft plan concerning uranium enrichment, two Pennsylvania lawmakers highlighted efforts on Capitol Hill and in Harrisburg to enact deeper sanctions against the Iranian regime. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and State Rep. Josh Shapiro (D-District 153) touted those efforts during an Oct...