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Time to Pass the Torch to the Next Generation

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Rebecca Strober

FIRST PERSON At age 10, most girls receive Barbie dolls, games or play make-up as a birthday present. I received a lifetime membership to Hadassah from my grandmother, Roslyn Rivlin Strober. "Grandma Booboo" had been a longtime Hadassah supporter, and had raised money for the cause both during the years that she lived in Israel as a young adult, and...

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Penn Scholars Share a Bond With Laureate

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Aaron Passman, JE Staff

Much of the attention paid to this year's Nobel Prize honorees has centered on President Barack Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But for a pair of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, there's an honor that hits much closer to home. Israeli researchers Gabriel Rosenblum and Ilan Samish -- currently post-doctoral students at Penn -- came to know...

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Recession Spurs Families to Make Aliyah -- Finally!

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Aaron Passman, JE Staff

Adam Levick, 41, spent more than half a decade working with the Anti-Defamation League. Having started out as an unpaid intern, spurred on by the outbreak of the Second Intifada, the native Philadelphian progressed through the organization first to a part-time position and then to a full-time gig, most recently as the group's assistant director of Jewish security, analyzing and...

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'Happiness Prof' Gives Life a Little Tilt

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Sally Friedman, JE Feature

When he was a sophomore at Harvard majoring in computer science, Tal Ben-Shahar should have been on top of the world. He was doing well academically, he was thriving socially, and he was playing varsity soccer -- but something was off. He was strangely unhappy. So he went to his adviser, as he recently told a capacity audience at Temple...

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Sea Sees Water Slipping Away

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Dina Kraft, JE Feature

Kibbutz Mashabe Sadeh, Israel From deep below the sands of the Negev Desert, water is being drilled for irrigating crops and even supplying water for fish ponds. In Israel, struggling with the most severe water crisis in its history, every tiny drop of water counts. This summer marked its fifth consecutive year of drought, its main reservoirs have dipped below...