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Green Group Sprouts in Synagogue

Germantown Jewish Centre has launched a "Green Mezuzah Havurah," a new group devoted to sustainability and lessening the carbon footprint of its members. The idea came in part from Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, founder of the Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network, who spoke at the local synagogue in the spring and urged members to create small groups dedicated to environmentalism. During...

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Mikveh's Suddenly Out of Hot Water

After recently spending $10,000 for renovations and upkeep, supporters of the Joseph and Martha Melohn Bucks County Mikvah in Bensalem thought they were in the clear for a time. But a recent notification from the local water department left members of the mikvah -- as well as the synagogue with which its affiliated -- feeling like they'd been sunk in...

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Woman Files Law Suit Claiming Discrimination

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

A Jewish woman in Souderton has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, Clayton H. Landis Company, or CHL Systems, a manufacturing and engineering company also in Souderton. Amy Elsner, the plaintiff, was fired from her position as a document control specialist after a little more than four months, during which her complaint alleges that she was subjected...

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Hate Speech Sounded at High School Contest

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Bryan Schwartzman

School officials reacted swiftly after a handful of student spectators uttered anti-Semitic chants during a basketball game last week between Lower Merion and Upper Darby high schools. During the closing moments of a Dec. 15 game held at Upper Darby -- a contest Lower Merion won handily -- several parents said that they heard spectators chant, "Warm up the Ovens"...

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Clinton Tackles Interdependence Among Nations

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Lisa Hostein

Can the reconciliation now taking place in post-genocide Rwanda serve as a model for Israeli-Palestinian peace? That was the suggestion posited by former President Bill Clinton, who addressed the Dec. 8 kickoff to the 2010 annual campaign of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia last week. In a wide-ranging, hourlong speech, Clinton's remarks spanned the globe and the issues that...