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Does Birthright Stifle Teen Travel?

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Why Did the People Complain Over Manna?

Beha’alotecha, 8:1-12:16

By:

Rabbi Danielle Stillman

Sometimes I spend my day thinking about food. From what to pack for my kids’ lunches to grocery lists, dinner and trying not to eat that leftover cupcake, food is never far from my mind. I suspect I’m average in this way, so it is no surprise that when the people complain in this week’s portion, Beha’alotecha, one of their...

Newsmakers

West Philly Rabbi Gives Benediction at Prayer Breakfast

By:

Greg Salisbury

At the second annual Prayer Breakfast for the Second Chance Foundation, Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, founding rabbi of Kol Tzedek in West Philadelphia, was chosen to give the closing benediction to the 430 politicians, religious leaders, heads of nonprofits and activists seated in the second-floor ballroom of the First District Plaza in University City. The breakfast is one of the...

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Does Birthright Stifle Teen Travel?

By:

Bryan Schwartzman

Palestinian violence and financial meltdowns aside, travel program leaders unanimously point to one cause for a dramatic drop in teenage visitors to the Jewish state over the past decade: Taglit-Birthright Israel.