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Business

Ashton Kutcher Talks Tech in Tel Aviv

Sports

For Love of the Game, Brothers Attended Different Schools

Health

The Art of Control: Study Analyzes Impact of Cancer Support Groups

Parenting

Israeli Gay Couple's Twin Delight

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

For many people, having a baby is a relatively straightforward process. The child is conceived, the couple goes to the doctor and labor classes, they wait nine months for the newborn to arrive and then: "Mazel tov!" For an Israeli couple with local ties, however, it was a bit more complicated. Hagai Maoz, 37, and Hagai Zvuluni, 33, have been...

Healthy Eating

New Study Offers Guidance on Cutting the Fat at School

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Renee Cree, JE Feature

Rates of Type 2 diabetes, a disease once only found in adults, have been steadily rising in children for years. If unchecked, it can have serious health effects for children, including higher risks of heart and blood-vessel disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, skin problems, and damage to the nerves, kidneys, eyes and feet. But a national study chaired by Gary...

Jewish Federation

It Takes More Than a Kehillah

Passing on the reins of a key community-building program

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Bryan Schwartzman

The Kehillot, the seven community-building entities throughout the region that stage Jewish festivals, adult learning sessions, soccer leagues, children's storytelling and Israeli Independence Day events, is about to come under new management. The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, which created and for years ran the network, is turning over the program to the Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education/ Jewish...

Travel

The Dark Ages

Why would anyone make a vacation out of historical sights of torture and death?

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Courtney Reed, JE Feature

I knew I had to go. But I couldn't say why I wanted to travel to Auschwitz, and why I wanted to do it alone. No one in my family had perished in a concentration camp. I have no Jewish heritage. My relatives did not even fight in World War II. But since adolescence, I have been saturated with brutal...

Travel

Seeing Red Over a Czech Museum

From bagels to Bolsheviks: Summertime for Dubcek and Czechoslovakia?

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Jelena Kopanja

The Museum of Communism rents its space from McDonald's, on one of the busiest streets in Prague. Its neighbor, on the first floor of a beautiful Baroque building, is a casino. Haphazardly thrown into the corners of its rooms are artifacts from the communist years of the former Czechoslovakia (today's Czech Republic): pieces of Soviet airplanes, propaganda posters, a time...