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B'nai B'rith Taps New President

Dennis W. Glick of Huntingdon Valley was elected the new president of B'nai B'rith International at the 166-year-old organization's annual conference, held this week in Washington, D.C. Glick, a 65-year-old CPA with his own private practice, was elected to a three-year term, and was officially sworn in on Monday evening. During his tenure, he plans to focus on combating rising...

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Charged With a Big Mission, He Plows Ahead

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Lisa Hostein

Natan Sharansky still carries star power, but he's going to need more than that to succeed as the new chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. The former Soviet dissident -- whose 1986 triumphant stride to freedom across a Berlin bridge heralded the opening of the floodgates for hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews -- is now at the helm...

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Sanctions: Yea or Nay? An Issue in Senate Race

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Bryan Schwartzman

Iran sanctions -- indeed President Barack Obama's whole approach to the nuclear threat posed by Tehran -- has emerged as a thorny issue in the Pennsylvania race for the U.S. Senate. Republican hopeful Pat Toomey has ripped into both U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-District 7) -- the two lawmakers competing in next year's Democratic...

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Specter Eyes His Record, Makes Case for Re-Election

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Bryan Schwartzman

More than seven months after stunning the political world by switching parties -- and receiving a chorus of welcome from the nation's top Democrats -- U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) exudes both determination and worry in his quest for re-election to a sixth term. "I saw President Clinton yesterday and he said, 'How's it going?' and I said, 'I've got...

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'Running Rabbis' Ready for New York Marathon

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Fredda Sacharow, JE Feature

In their day jobs, they deliver sermons, chant Kabbalat Shabbat services, teach Hebrew school, cram for rabbinical-school exams, and conduct funerals and Bar Mitzvah ceremonies. On their own time, they run. Boy, do they run! Ten religious leaders who've dubbed themselves the "Running Rabbis" will be among the 42,000 men and women taking part in the 40th New York City...