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Kohelet Yeshiva Finds Its Rhythm at Poetry Slam

Local

First Reform Day Camp Planned for Philly

Global

Claims Conference Carried Out Own Probe of Fraud

Israel

Report: IDF not responsible for notorious 2000 shooting

National

ZOA Lobbies Against Aid to Egypt, Palestinians

Local

Throngs Come Out to Support Israel

Global

Last of Ethiopian Aliyah to Begin

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A charter flight of some 240 Ethiopian Jews that arrived last week launched the final stages of the aliyah from Ethiopia. The program, dubbed Operation Dove’s Wings, is an Israeli government initiative to bring the remainder of the Falash Mura — Ethiopians whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity — to Israel by March 2014. The Ethiopians...

Books

Making Book

By:

Melissa Jacobs

Top off your weekend with a trip to the Katz JCC in Jersey for a star-studded line-up at the annual Bank of America Festival of Arts, Books and Culture.

Election 2012

Local Cheers and Some Remorse

By:

Bryan Schwartzman

Spirits soared — and some dimmed — at election watch parties Tuesday night with the news that President Barack Obama had won a second term. Supporters celebrated a victorious end to a slog of a campaign that had dragged on for 18 long months.

Election 2012

Jobs Intact for Lawmakers

By:

Bryan Schwartzman

This time around, remembering the name of your lawmakers in Washington shouldn’t be so hard. Unlike other recent election cycles, the cast of U.S. Senate and House incumbents representing the Philadelphia area remains unchanged.

Election 2012

Obama’s second term: More of the same, at least until Iran flares

By:

Ron Kampeas, JTA

The day after the election looks a lot like the day before for President Obama, particularly in areas that have attracted the attention of Jewish voters: Tussling with Republicans domestically on the economy and health care, and dancing gingerly with Israel around the issue of a nuclear Iran.