Lifestyle

First Reform Day Camp Planned for Philly

The Turning Points of an Ageless Dance Doyenne

Baseball and beer. Baseball and red hots. Baseball and bragging rights. Baseball and -- Jews? It's not such a seventh-inning stretch; in fact, say many, it is -- like Roy Hobbs himself -- a natural. Maybe even biblical? "In the big inning" is the genesis of an old joke that goes back possibly to when the earth was created. Or,...

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Making Philly Maccabi-Friendly

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Jared Shelly, JE Feature

With 1,500 athletes and coaches descending on Philadelphia for next week's JCC Maccabi Games, preparations for the Olympic-style competition for Jewish teens is quite an undertaking. Armed with just two paid staffers, some interns and plenty of volunteers, Beth Segal, the games director, and Farrell Borine, executive director of the Kaiserman JCC, are feverishly working out the last-minute details as...

Jewish Federation

Professional Advisers to Laud and Learn at Seminar

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Lynn B. Edelman

Philadelphia-area attorneys, accountants and other professional advisers are invited to participate in the Solomon and Sylvia Bronstein Seminar at The Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia. This annual event, sponsored by the Estate Planners Advisory Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 8, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Samuel A. Donaldson, JD, LLM, will...

Health

Little Angels as Blessings

Author traces those spiritual 'baby steps' to parenthood

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Rachel Vigoda, JE Feature

Everyone told Rabbi Ilana Grinblat that becoming a parent changes everything. But she had no idea what they were talking about. Until, of course, she became a parent. Grinblat's new memoir-style parenting guide, Blessings and Baby Steps: The Spiritual Path of Parenthood , takes readers through the milestones of parenting -- from conception and labor through swimming lessons and first...

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Senior Program Seeks to Fill the Stiffel Gap

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Bryan Schwartzman

It was just a few days before Tisha B'Av, the traditional fast day that commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, as well as other Jewish tragedies. Rabbi Jeff Sultar told a group of seniors who are adjusting to the recent closing of the Stiffel Senior Center in South Philadelphia that the occasion is also about...