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Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

Funds for the Future: Rethinking the Way a Model Works Best

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Leonard Barrac

As part of this year's funding process, the chairs and volunteers of each Center Board (Center for Social Responsibility, Center for Jewish Life and Learning and Center for Israel and Overseas) of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia worked through a very difficult and challenging process, reviewing and discussing hundreds of proposals from community groups locally and overseas. As the...

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New Edition of the Gospels Helps Highlight the Many Consequences of Translation

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Jay M. Starr

The best thing ever produced by committee is the King James Bible. Its impact on the English language -- its beauty and power -- is unsurpassed. Its influence on Christian doctrine and interpretation, and especially on Protestant Christianity's role in shaping American thought and culture, is profound. Now comes a new English translation of the New Testament, including the Gnostic...

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Letters Week of August 5, 2010

Old and New Memories of Summer Experiences The article that Lori Samlin Miller wrote, "You Can't Put a Price Tag on Family Memories" (Reflections, July 29), brought back many memories of my summer family vacations in Atlantic City, N.J. My father and I would get up early and ride bikes on the boardwalk before the beach- goers headed to the...

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Opinion II: Seeking the Link Between Peace and Prayer

Shofar as Wake-Up Call to Assess Ourselves and the Middle East

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Rabbi Pesach Lerner

With the advent of Rosh Hashanah, reflection and introspection dominate our thoughts as we are called upon to examine our lives and focus on improving ourselves, both as human beings and as Jews. One hallmark of the High Holiday season is the concept of teshuvah, or repentance: the act of acknowledging our flaws and transgressions, of owning up to our...

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You Can't Put a Price Tag on Family Memories

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Lori Samlin Miller, JE Feature

Driving out of Wynnefield to escape the summer heat, we found ourselves cruising down the Black Horse Pike, heading toward Atlantic City. In the 1960s of my youth, both of these towns were enclaves for Jewish immigrants of Eastern European descent. Back then, Atlantic City -- with its beach and boardwalk -- teemed with year-round and vacationing Jews, but only...