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Synagogue, Developer At Odds Over Casino

Local

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

Local

ADL Regional Head to Retire at Year’s End

Local

Paper Clip Statue Heading for Broomall

By:

Eric Berger

Touched by a rural Tennessee school project commemorating the Holocaust with millions of paper clips, a lifelong Philadelphian commisioned a seven-foot-tall paper clip sculpture that will be installed in front of his Broomall congregation.

Local

Penn Hillel Head Makes ‘Forward’ 50

Rabbi Michael Uram, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Hillel, was named to the “Forward 50.”

Global

U.N. Bid Puts Palestinians Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By:

Ron Kampeas, JTA

The arguments for and against the latest Palestinian bid for statehood status at the United Nations come down to which is the faster path to irrelevancy.

Israel

'Surgical Strike' Kills Hamas Leader in Gaza

By:

JTA

The head of Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip, Ahmed Jabri, was killed by an Israeli missile.

Election 2012

Back to Work for Lawmaker

By:

Bryan Schwartzman

U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz — the lone Jew and female representing Pennsylvania in Congress — discusses what's on her priority list for her fifth term in office.