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Business

Ashton Kutcher Talks Tech in Tel Aviv

Sports

For Love of the Game, Brothers Attended Different Schools

Health

The Art of Control: Study Analyzes Impact of Cancer Support Groups

Education

In Reversal of Course, Local ADL Backs Vouchers

For decades, the Anti-Defamation League has opposed school vouchers on the grounds that such a policy could dent the wall separating church and state by steering public dollars toward religious schools. But now, lay leaders in Philadelphia are leading the charge for the influential national organization, which has long advocated for strict church-state separation, to reverse course. The argument, according...

Travel

When Nature Calls

Guatemala is abundant with eco-thrills -- and higher tourist taxes?

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Lauren Kramer, JE Feature

There's a place in the Caribbean where manatees move silently in the shallows of Guatemala's Rio Dulce River and children paddle dug-out canoes across the water to get to school. Verdant jungle abounds, and though there has been significant deforestation nearby, from this vantage point, it looks like the land has never been touched by human hands. To get to...

Fighting Cancer

One Ambitious Girl, and Wares That Care

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Daphna Berman, JE Feature

Sophie Freedman is a typical sixth-grader in many ways. She loves animals, the color pink, dissecting things in science class and making jewelry. And so, when it came time to prepare a Bat Mitzvah project, beading bracelets and then giving them to children with cancer seemed like a great idea. But for Sophie, who set up shop at the oncology...

Fighting Cancer

Match for a Lifetime

Barrack runs a bone-marrow search to assist a local woman

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Frank Rosci, JE Feature

Sandee Kline, who has acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, needs a miracle -- and she needs it now. To that end, the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Bryn Mawr earlier this month sponsored a daylong drive to find a bone-marrow match and donor for the 57-year-old wife, mother and grandmother. Word of the event spread like wildfire, and by the end...

Education

Joint Program Entices More Students

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Bryan Schwartzman

The teacher switched off the Israeli rock and hip-hop tunes blaring from his laptop and, although only a handful of students were at their desks, dove right into the day's topic: What does it mean to be a Jewish hero? In the past few months, they have discussed a range of figures -- from baseball legend Sandy Koufax to funny...