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Gratz Goes Doctoral, While Getting a Real Jump-Start Online

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Bryan Schwartzman

What do a Chabad rabbi from Delaware, the director of congregational learning at a Conservative shul in Baltimore and the education director of a Reform synagogue in Abington have in common? They're all full-time Jewish communal professionals working toward doctorates in Jewish education at Gratz College in Melrose Park. The program, now entering its fourth year, has 15 students, who...

Education

Jewish Students Explore Arab Lands

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

While many of his peers were heading to traditional spring-break venues in Florida, 20-year-old Jacob Arem wasn't having any of that. Sure, he was looking for some sand and sun, but he was focusing on something a bit more off the beaten path. Hello, Syria. The Akiba Hebrew Academy graduate and Cornell University senior said that despite some initial fears...

Healthy Eating

Squeezed Out

Do homemade juices offer benefits the bottled kind cannot?

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Elyse Glickman, JE Feature

Are liquefied fruits and vegetables easy, refreshing and natural ways to get nourished ... or are some juicers and producers all wet? Much has happened in the years since the Florida Orange Growers Association declared that orange juice was "not just for breakfast anymore." We have been treated to all kinds of would-be liquid miracles, from "super fruit" blends (acai,...

Education

Arab Students Meet Jews and Judaism Head On

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Bryan Schwartzman

Dressed in a hijab, Sarah Shiha, a 22-year-old Egyptian who hopes to one day preach the Koran on the airwaves, declares a desire to study Torah. But before her recent visit to Philadelphia, she'd never even met a Jew. Now, after participating in a five-week seminar on democracy and religious pluralism for students from the Arab world that included several...

Events

Members of a Far-Flung Family to Reunite in Baltimore

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Rachel Vigoda, JE Feature

Laya Bitman is expecting 75 people at her family reunion in Baltimore this weekend. The other 15,925 can't make it. For the past 17 years, Bitman has been constructing her family tree, tying together 16,000 relatives from Philadelphia, where she grew up, and Baltimore, where she now lives, as well as New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Virginia, Georgia, Florida,...