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Letters Week of July 09, 2009

Unexpected Problems Crop Up for Intermarried In your article "Conservative Synagogues Shift Tactics on the Intermarried" (City & Suburb, July 2), you describe the struggles of local Jewish congregations as they try to find a role for intermarried Jews. I am Jewish by birth, and my wife of seven years is Episcopalian, but utterly non-observant and fully supportive of raising...
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Letters Week of June 25, 2009

JCCs Get a Bum Rap in Recent Cover Story I was dismayed by Bryan Schwartzman's front-page article in the June 18 issue of the Jewish Exponent concerning the demise of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia ("JCC Branches Go Separate Ways"). For 17 years, I served as the public-relations director there, and during my tenure, it was the largest...
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Letters Week of June 11, 2009

Story Misconstrued Goals of Program at Har Zion The cover story "Confirming Their Future" by Melissa Jacobs, which appeared in the May 28 Jewish Exponent, misrepresented the attitude and philosophy of our clergy, principals and lay leadership toward Jewish education at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley. As vice president of education and youth at Har Zion, I found it...
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Letters week of June 4, 2009

When Did Abortion Become a Jewish Right? My knowledge of the Hebrew scriptures and Talmud must be far worse than I imagined. I cannot come up with anything anywhere to support your editorial claim that legalized abortion is a "cherished" Jewish freedom ("Yea or Nay for Nominee?" May 28). Howard R. Lurie King of Prussia Praise of Court Candidate May...
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Letters week of May 28, 2009

Har Zion and Its Rabbi Defined Wynnefield Shtetl I lived in the last days of "the Wynnefield shtetl," walking to Har Zion Temple with other kids on Shabbat mornings. In the early 1970s, Rabbi Wolpe was my rabbi and his sons were my friends (Obituaries: "Gerald I. Wolpe, Longtime Rabbi at Har Zion, Dies at 81," May 21). It was...
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