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Kohelet Yeshiva Finds Its Rhythm at Poetry Slam

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First Reform Day Camp Planned for Philly

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Claims Conference Carried Out Own Probe of Fraud

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Amid Brouhaha Over IRS, Z Street Gets Its Day in Court

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ZOA Regains Its Tax-Exempt Status

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Throngs Come Out to Support Israel

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Price Tag High in Tight Races

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Bryan Schwartzman

In a year when the volume of outside campaign spending has emerged as its own election-season story, Jewish-backed groups have devoted an unprecedented amount of money to try to influence the outcome of the Pennsylvania Senate race. In the run-up to the Nov. 2 elections, a new set of commercials attacking Democratic candidate Joe Sestak has hit the airways as...

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University Distances Itself from Professor

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Bryan Schwartzman

After mounting pressure on the administration of Lincoln University to repudiate the views of a longtime literature professor who has called for the destruction of Israel and promoted Holocaust denial, the university issued a statement calling the professor's views "an insult to all decent people." The controversy surrounds Palistani-born Kaukab Siddique, a tenured professor at the state-funded, historically black college...

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Evaluate This: Job Reviews Are a Waste of Time!

Here's a phrase that most workers dread hearing: "It's time for your annual performance review." Stop shuddering for a minute. After all, a business professor at the University of California--Los Angeles is campaigning to eliminate them all together. "Reviews are fraudulent and offensive one-size-fits-all metrics," said Samuel Culbert. "Getting the word out is important to me." Along those lines, he...

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Tea, Anyone?

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Bryan Schwartzman

President Barack Obama's motorcade wasn't expected to pass by for another three hours. But Sid Karp stood patiently on the corner of Arch and 12th streets late last month -- along with about two dozen other Tea Party protesters -- waiting for the chance to express his ardent disapproval of a variety of policies. "Obama is changing our form of...

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On the Minds of Jewish Voters

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Bryan Schwartzman

It's not hard to find Jewish voters concerned about the fiscal health of the nation. Take, for example, Sybil Schwartz and Ken Brier. Both Schwartz of Garnet Valley in Delaware County and Brier of Bala Cynwyd in Montgomery County are in their 60s, and still working. While they each cite the economy as their No. 1 issue, they attribute different...