K.I.’s Library: Booked for the Limelight
Over the past year, the Clarence L. and Estelle S. Meyers Library at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park has undergone a $20,000...
A Shul Softens the Blow for a Grieving Mother
Avivah Raziel, who helps bring life into the world as a neonatal nurse, was at work at Hadassah Hospital on Aug. 9, 2001, when...
A ‘Renaissance Man’ Retires From Pulpit
Although Jewish causes were a significant part of his Brooklyn upbringing - his father was president of their Orthodox shul, and was also involved...
A Mound of Material on the Shoah
Though the Holocaust is a topic many find difficult to read about, let alone write about, 100 local sixth-graders tackled the challenge head on.
In...
Synagogue Greets 30 With Evening Bash
Hoping, quite literally, for some kind of miracle, Jeff Landsman slipped a desperately scrawled note into a crevice in the Western Wall. On his...
Neither Wind Nor Rain Can Stop These Spirited Congregants
Temple Brith Kodesh renovated a duplex on Frontenac and Wellington streets in Northeast Philadelphia 50 years ago, taking what was just a house and...
Thirty Become B’nai Mitzvah During Mission Trip
From teens to grandparents, 30 men and women from the area celebrated their B'nai Mitzvah in Israel during a December 2012 mission trip organized...
Coffee Talk
There's always that one little group in town you've never heard of, the one that flies below the radar - that, in passing, people...
A Rabbi’s Crusade: Mezuzahs in Every Home
With a large black kipah slightly askew atop a mat of graying hair, and strands of his flowing beard branching off in all directions,...
Bucking a Trend, Rodeph Shalom Starts to Expand
Meet Dena Herrin: a Hebrew school drop-out who married a practicing Catholic — and then went on to become president of one of the...