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Astronaut to Bring Document to Outer Space

A Jewish astronaut has been chosen to bring the presidential proclamation creating Jewish American Heritage Month into space. "The timing is perfect," Garrett Reisman told reporters during a NASA conference call, as the commemoration is marked each May. Reisman, 42, is a mission specialist launching on May 16 aboard the Atlantis space shuttle, reported the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. After the...

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Lehigh Valley Community: Modest in Size, Big in Spirit

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

It was a rainy Monday morning as members of Allentown's Conservative Temple Beth El filed into the dark synagogue and greeted one another with a friendly series of boker tovs, or "good mornings." The synagogue usually attracts up to 75 people on Shabbat, but on this particular day, only about a dozen congregants sauntered in to the small sanctuary, most...

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Candidates Work Hard to Woo the Community

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Bryan Schwartzman

Making his re-election pitch inside an Elkins Park synagogue earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter ratcheted up his criticism of President Barack Obama's dealings with Israel. "I say publicly: You are wrong, Mr. President," Specter said Sunday afternoon, referring to the administration's call for Israel to cease building in eastern Jerusalem, and news reports of Obama's private chastising of...

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It's May, and the Heat's Turned Up, Just in Time for Primary Season

On May 18, Pennsylvania voters will decide the political fate of U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the longest-serving senator in the state's history and one of the most notable Jewish politicians in the country. But there's no shortage of other key contests to be decided on primary day, including the race to succeed Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, one of three Jewish...

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Elkins Park Resident Starts New Palin Club

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Bryan Schwartzman

It's hard to find a political figure today held in less esteem in the eyes of most Jews than former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a blogger for the conservative publication Commentary wrote earlier this year. Jennifer Rubin, in a January posting analyzing the Palin phenomenon, asserted that while they might be off-base, Jews see her as "uncouth, unschooled, a hick,...