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Ashton Kutcher Talks Tech in Tel Aviv

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For Love of the Game, Brothers Attended Different Schools

Health

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

Fighting Cancer

Explaining Illness to the Young

Writing duo tag teams to address concerns

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Rita Charleston, JE Feature

Beverlye Hyman Fead was frightened. She had already been through a bout with uterine lining cancer some 19 years ago, lived through a radical hysterectomy, and was told since the cancer was self-contained, no more treatments were necessary. "My grandmother, mother and two sisters died of cancer, so I thought I was the lucky one. Now it was my turn,...

Travel

Where Candle-Lighting Cast Its Harsh Shadows

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Lauren Kramer, JE Feature

It's erev Chanukah and the Bezemstraat playground, a large courtyard in the historic heart of Holland's The Hague, is empty of children. In its center stands an odd piece of artwork: a series of steel shapes resembling chairs of different sizes. Come closer and you see that the first names of children are inscribed on each steel bar of the...

Sports

A Nifty Night of Harmonies and Hoopla Marks Sixers Game

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Jared Shelly, JE Feature

Taking a casual glance at the crowd gathered at the Wachovia Center during the Philadelphia 76ers game on Jan. 13, it was clear that the fans hadn't come together just to witness another matchup with division rivals, the New York Knicks. A group of guys with beards and yarmulkes were cheering on the home team. A group of girls were...

Sports

He Followed the Ball, All the Way to California

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Jon Marks, JE Feature

Omri Casspi knew it was time to put the "agony of defeat" aside and head out to meet his adoring public. Even though it was Erev Shabbat, a large contingent inside the Wachovia Center had stayed behind after his Sacramento Kings lost to the 76ers on Jan. 15. Once he left the Kings locker room and headed up the tunnel,...

Interfaith Families

Intermarriage: No Laughing Matter

Numbers in the population study are nothing to clown around about

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Bryan Schwartzman

It doesn't happen often that a pop-cultural milestone like the 20th anniversary of "The Simpsons" dovetails with the release of a new Jewish demographic survey. But that's exactly what happened when the plot of the Jan. 10 episode revolved around the marriage of a Jew and a Congregationalist, who also happen to be a clown and a princess, respectively. When...