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Death as a Constant Part of Life

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Masters Hockey Team Revels in Camaraderie

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U.N. Nominee Elicits High Praise, Criticism

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Local Interfaith Group Gets New Head

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Old York Road Group Seeks More Funding

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Reeling From the Penn State Scandal

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Bryan Schwartzman

Rabbi David Ostrich, who leads the lone congregation in State College, Pa., couldn't bring himself to sermonize last Shabbat on the scandal that's on everyone's mind.

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Counting Jews in Local Elections

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Bryan Schwartzman

Montgomery County, the area with the highest percentage of Jewish residents in the Keystone State, will now have two Jewish commissioners to help run it.

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A Youthful Tribute to Rabin

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Bryan Schwartzman

Ari Carroll was just a year old on Nov. 4, 1995, the day that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was struck down by an assassin's bullet.

Learning

Renewal Rabbi Reaches Beyond Philadelphia

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Bryan Schwartzman

Rabbi Marcia Prager likens the prayer experience to sitting for a six-course meal in an exquisite restaurant: It's not meant to be rushed through, but rather something to be savored.

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Redemption for Vet Who Saw War's Horrors

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Shelley Greenbaum | JE Feature

My husband, Don Greenbaum, 86 and still going strong, served in World War II as a forward observer, operating on the front lines. While he was in Colmar, France, a friend and fellow Wynnefield boy, Sidney Geller, died alongside him while they were on the battlefield. Don was devastated by the loss and, throughout the war, he was haunted by...