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Kohelet Yeshiva Finds Its Rhythm at Poetry Slam

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First Reform Day Camp Planned for Philly

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Claims Conference Carried Out Own Probe of Fraud

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Report: IDF not responsible for notorious 2000 shooting

National

ZOA Lobbies Against Aid to Egypt, Palestinians

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Throngs Come Out to Support Israel

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Digital Families Gather for First-Ever Tech Confab

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Deborah Hirsch

Twelve-year-old Jacob Resnick sat in a stately armchair in the lobby of the Sheraton Society Hill, contemplating the animation he just created on his laptop. This wouldn't seem unusual, if not for the fact that pretty much every kid meandering through the hotel seemed more absorbed in electronic devices than swimming pools or sightseeing. In fact, 275 kids, teens and...

Health

Will Healthy Debate Continue?

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Bryan Schwartzman

Audrey Ross breathed a huge sigh of relief when she heard that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld President Barack Obama's health care law last week. The 32-year-old works for a Center City nonprofit, suffers from diabetes and has faced anxiety over the prospect of losing her insurance. "I think health coverage is an absolute right. I also think it...

National

'Mein Kampf' Debate

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Toby Axelrod , Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Berlin Does Mein Kampf belong in the German high schools? With Adolf Hitler's book due to come out of wraps here in 2015, freed after decades under copyright protection that prevented its publication in Germany, it's a question that is being debated in classrooms and on German TV talk shows. Hitler wrote his rant against Jews and communists while in...

Global

Brotherhood Upends Mubarak Legacy

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Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi is the declared winner of Egypt's presidential race and his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, reportedly continues to lie near death in a coma -- just like the legacy he tried to craft for himself and his country. Mubarak, 84, once the entrenched leader of his land, was supposed to be leaving behind an Egypt pre-eminent in...

Election 2012

Senate Hopeful Bats for Israel

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Bryan Schwartzman

Tom Smith, the Republican hoping to unseat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), may not be familiar with the Yiddish term mensch -- at least not until this week -- nor has he yet visited the Jewish state, though he hopes to one day. But the one-time coal miner-turned-coal executive from western Pennsylvania's Armstrong County says he is confident that his...