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Synagogue, Developer At Odds Over Casino

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ADL Regional Head to Retire at Year’s End

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J-Walking With Leno and Federation

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Michael Elkin

Jay Leno leads with his chin — and it’s quite a lead, given that he’s beaten his late-night TV talk show comedian competitor David Letterman for years. It’s good to be king of late night, but Leno, the 62-year-old mainstream comedian from Andover, Mass., provides a crowning touch of being an exception in an extraordinary business. The NBC star and...

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Wharton Launches Site on Israeli Innovations

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Bryan Schwartzman

The award-winning, web-based business journal run by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is launching its latest spinoff, this one with a focus on innovation in Israel. Penn marked the launch of Israel Knowledge@Wharton — a companion site to Knowledge@Wharton — with an Oct. 12 program on campus. Lawrence Zicklin, an investment manager, philanthropist and New York University professor offered...

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From Interrogating Warlords to Reciting Torah

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Bryan Schwartzman

Retired Lt. Col. Kathy Brill has interrogated an Afghan warlord and experienced firsthand one of the most violent periods of the U.S. war in Iraq. But as the Overbrook Park resident — who is barely five feet tall — tells it, she was nervous, if not outright terrified, to step into a synagogue. After decades away from congregational life and...

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Marine Returns from Afghan Tour

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Eric Berger

Lt. Dan Ludmir sat next to Afghan civilians at meals, sharing food from the same plate. Hosts poured him cups of chai tea. It is well known among U.S. Marines, he said, that Afghan families reserve the nicest mattress for guests. And yet, beneath the handshakes and generous hospitality, Ludmir, a Philadelphia-area native, said the most urgent and constant threat...

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The Wave Rolls On

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Eric Berger

Ron Jones was one of the most popular teachers at Cubberley High School in Northern California when in April 1967, he turned his classroom into a fascist state and instructed students to salute him. At 25, he was not much older than many of his students and was determined not to repeat the drab lessons he’d sat through in school...