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Israel's Conundrum With Syria

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Death as a Constant Part of Life

Sports

Masters Hockey Team Revels in Camaraderie

National

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

Local

Business Web Site Gets Targeted

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Aaron Passman, JE Staff

The Web site for Teva Landscaping, a local business run by native Israeli Ami Dolev, 36, was hacked into and vandalized with anti-Semitic, anti-Israel statements. The messages, which claimed to be from an Algerian hacker, contained the words "StOp War in Al-Aqsa Mosque," [sic] featured graphic photos of victims from recent Israeli conflicts, and referred to Israelis as "the real...

Jewish Federation

'Mania' Sweeps Across the Area

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Aaron Passman and Bryan Schwartzman, JE Staff

Talk about a fall frenzy. At Jewish institutions, in individual homes and in public spaces, Jews across greater Philadelphia gave back like it was going out of style on Nov. 1, doing their best to put the mania in Mitzvah Mania. How much mania are we talkin' about here? Well, there's the 4,000 pints of soup made for the hungry...

History & Nostalgia

Potpourri of People Set to Guide at Museum

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Fredda Sacharow, JE Feature

Howard Reed owns a small piece of American-Jewish history. Family lore has it that his maternal grandmother, Rebecca Steiner, was the first woman to graduate from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy -- itself the first such institution in North America -- circa 1900. Now Reed, a retired postal clerk, is writing his own chapter in his people's history as the National...

Local

Wright Synagogue Adds Some of the Right Stuff

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Bryan Schwartzman

While it's pretty hard to miss Beth Sholom Congregation's striking edifice as you drive past it on Old York Road in Elkins Park, it hasn't always been that easy to tour the inside of the only synagogue ever designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Up until now, taking a tour meant calling ahead and making an appointment. But that's...

Local

Lawmakers Tout Efforts Over Iran Sanctions

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Bryan Schwartzman

As the Obama administration awaited an official response from Iran as to whether it would abide by a draft plan concerning uranium enrichment, two Pennsylvania lawmakers highlighted efforts on Capitol Hill and in Harrisburg to enact deeper sanctions against the Iranian regime. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and State Rep. Josh Shapiro (D-District 153) touted those efforts during an Oct...