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Is Camp Investment Paying Off in Numbers?

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Camps Get Matching Grants for Improvements

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Galil Alum Pens Novel Steeped in Camp and Fantasy

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Dentist Looks Deep Into Mouths of Zoo Animals

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Iran’s President-Elect: Bridge to the West?

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N.J. Controversy Cools Off After Resignation

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Braced for Budget Cuts

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Bryan Schwartzman

Jewish groups are bracing for the impact that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed $27.1 billion budget could have on poor and elderly constituents. The budget includes hundreds of millions of dollars in potential cuts and no tax increases. Corbett has stressed the need to instill greater fiscal responsibility and to cut down on fraud and waste in state government. In...

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Pushing for Holocaust Education

State Rep. Brendan Boyle, a Democratic lawmaker from Northeast Philadelphia, is set to introduce legislation requiring Pennsylvania's public and private schools to include Holocaust and genocide studies in the curriculum. "Learning from our past is the only way to ensure that this terrible part of history never repeats itself. The lessons learned from the atrocities committed during the Holocaust should...

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Day School Collective Offers Grants

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Deborah Hirsch

Families have a new incentive to consider Jewish day school with a sweeping grant initiative that will provide tuition assistance for any of nine private schools in the region. Each elementary, middle and high school program in the newly created Jewish Day School Collaborative of Greater Philadelphia will award five grants that cover as much as a third of annual...

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Bevilacqua: Devoted to Interfaith Relations

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Bryan Schwartzman

As Catholics mourn the passing of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua -- and debate his handling of the priest sex-abuse scandal, which broke under his watch -- some longtime Jewish leaders are remembering him as a leader committed to improving Catholic-Jewish relations. In his 35 years working at the Jewish Community Relations Council, Burt Siegel interacted with three different leaders of the...

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Birth Control Debate

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Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Washington Birth control is rapidly gaining steam as an election-year wedge issue, with Jewish advocates lobbying out front and behind the scenes in what is shaping up as a clash between calls for individual freedom and religious liberty. Several Jewish groups and lawmakers played a behind-the-scenes role in the latest flashpoint: last month's order by the Obama administration requiring most...