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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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Amid Brouhaha Over IRS, Z Street Gets Its Day in Court

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ZOA Regains Its Tax-Exempt Status

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Throngs Come Out to Support Israel

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Adviser Knows Terror Firsthand

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Bryan Schwartzman

As a Jew who grew up Rapid City, S.D., spent two decades as an officer in the U.S. Army and is a member of the Republican Party, Dan Adelstein knows a thing or two about being in the minority.

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Faces That Still Haunt

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Ann Weiss | JE Feature

It's been 25 years since I first stepped onto the blood-soaked terrain of Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time, 25 years since I first saw photos that were to change my life -- photos that Hitler never wanted anyone to see.

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Local Rabbi Among Those Honored at Arlington

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Karen Wendkos | JE Feature

When David S. Engel heard of a proposal to establish a monument for fallen Jewish chaplains at Arlington National Cemetery, he immediately picked up the phone and called the director of the JWB's Jewish Chaplains Council and asked, "What can I do to help?"

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Local Elections: A Taste of What's Ahead?

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Bryan Schwartzman

Liz Rogan and Beth Ladenheim are both suburban moms who live in Wynnewood and belong to Temple Beth Hillel/Beth El, but when it comes to politics -- especially the local variety -- they have little in common.

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Joy for Gilad

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Bryan Schwartzman

For Rabbi Ira Budow, headmaster of the Abrams Hebrew Academy, the prisoner exchange leading to the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit served as the ultimate teachable moment.