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Listening to Survivors, Learning to Face Life’s Struggles

Critics of Israel Shouldn't Be Branded as Traitors I write to commend you on your fair coverage of the recent J Street program held at Penn Hillel (City & Suburb: "Competing 'Streets' Meet, but Manage Not to Intersect," Feb. 11). But I also must express my concern for the McCarthyism that is infecting the Jewish community as represented by the...

Kvetch 'N Kvell

Letters the Week of Feb.18, 2010

Paper Got It All Wrong When It Comes to J Street As someone who has devoted years of my life to Israel advocacy, I am appalled by the Jewish Exponent's coverage of J Street and its recent Philadelphia event (City & Suburb: "Competing 'Streets' Meet, but Manage Not to Intersect," Feb. 11). While the newspaper has striven for an evenhanded...

Editorials

Warming Up to Shabbat

What better time to reflect on the warm and welcoming embrace of Shabbat than during this year's record-setting, snow-infused winter? As our cover story this week illustrates, introductions to Shabbat rituals and experiences are all the rage in our area, from a "Shabbat U" at Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley to "A Taste of Shabbat" at Congregation Ohev Shalom...

Columns

The Metaphysics of Citizenship, Explicated 50 Years Later

By:

Monroe E. Price

Each day, there's a new drama in the papers or on TV about the complexities of citizenship -- the yearning to acquire it, the frustrations of denial, the abuses and the benefits. Citizenship as status is one of the defining narratives of an identity laden and struggling global system of nation states. As I and my children have sorted out...

Columns

Groups Work to Attract Young Adults Via Their Preferred Mediums

By:

Adam Oded

I imagine that many people nodded their heads as they read the findings in the 2009 Jewish Population Study of Greater Philadelphia indicating a graying population and a dearth of younger Jews. For me, it raised more questions than answers. In the last year, I have met hundreds of young Jewish adults who have moved to Philadelphia. Some of these...