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Kohelet Yeshiva Finds Its Rhythm at Poetry Slam

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First Reform Day Camp Planned for Philly

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Claims Conference Carried Out Own Probe of Fraud

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Report: IDF not responsible for notorious 2000 shooting

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ZOA Lobbies Against Aid to Egypt, Palestinians

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Throngs Come Out to Support Israel

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Bundling Dollars for Campaigns

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Bryan Schwartzman

Forget Super PACs. When it comes to political funding, Jewish "bundlers" dominate the scene in the Philadelphia area.

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Not So Far Apart at U.N.

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Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Washington · Analysis President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not meet, but they ended up sounding not so far apart. Netanyahu's address to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 27 in many ways echoed Obama's speech there two days earlier, with both ratcheting up the heat on Iran over its nuclear program. The themes that echoed...

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Bonding Over Sukkah Building

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Eric Berger

Lumber, tarps and poles lay in piles outside the University of Pennsylvania Hillel late last week ready for groups of students to assemble into sukkahs. By the time the holiday began Sunday evening, the campus was expected to be a maze of 10 structures, some tiny and made to resemble those built in the ghettos during the Holocaust, others adorned...

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In Ukraine, New Funds for Survivors Bring Relief — and New Expectations

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Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

ODESSA, Ukraine In her dilapidated apartment, Larisa Rakovskaya examines a stack of unpaid heating bills. Sick and alone, the 86-year-old Holocaust survivor and widow is preparing for another encounter with the cold, her “worst and only fear.” Rakovskaya said her hope of staying warm this winter lies with a one-time payment of approximately $3,200 that she may receive from Germany...

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Penn State Gymnast Reflects on Olympics

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Robert Gluck, JNS.org

Among those who grabbed headlines related to the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal surrounding Penn State University’s football program was Graham Spanier, the Jewish university president who was forced to resign after it was revealed that he didn’t properly report the abuse to authorities. Penn State student Felix Aronovich, on the other hand, represents a feel-good Jewish story surrounding the...