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Back From Trip, Casey's Aligned to Play Key Role

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Bryan Schwartzman

Four years ago, Bob Casey -- then state treasurer and a candidate for the U.S. Senate -- made his first trip to Israel, touring the country as a relative foreign-policy neophyte with a group of Jewish backers who hoped they had found the guy to unseat conservative Republican Rick Santorum. Last week, Casey returned to the Jewish state under very...

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Incidents Decreased, as Synagogue Targeted

The evening before the Anti-Defamation League was set to release its annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents, just such an event was being perpetrated at a local Conservative synagogue. Arriving for morning minyan, congregants at Congregation Ner Zedek-Ezrath Israel-Beth Uziel in Northeast Philadelphia found a gold, spray-painted swastika on the front of their building, reported office manager Terrie Bass. The offending...

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B'nai B'rith Honors Executive of Big Brothers Big Sisters

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Daphna Berman, JE Feature

If it costs $40,000 to treat a patient for a gunshot wound and $30,000 to incarcerate a convict, then the $1,200 it costs to pair an at-risk child with a mentor -- thereby increasing the child's chances of staying in school and away from crime -- is actually a sound financial investment. That, essentially, is the business model driving the...

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Survivor in Their Midst, and Not a Soul Knew

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

Emanuel "Manny" Mandel is a social worker in the Washington, D.C., suburbs who also finds time to volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In the early 1950s, he was the new kid at Philadelphia's Central High School in Olney -- and had a background few knew about: He was a teenage Holocaust survivor. Mandel was back at the...

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A Community Away From Home -- on a Naval Ship, to Be Exact

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Alison Buckholtz, JE Feature

During my husband Scott's seven-month deployment on an aircraft carrier last year, much of our life seemed upside-down. Our two young children were confused, and at times distraught, over their father's absence; my role as the "Skipper's wife" (my husband is a Navy pilot and commanding officer of his squadron) was a far cry from what I had imagined myself...