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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

Learning 'Aleph-Bet' Adjusts to the Age

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Deborah Hirsch

Maia Silver read along as her teacher, miles away in a Lansdale home office, remotely highlighted each Hebrew word on her computer screen. " Ani lomedet bih beit sefer bih Cherry Hill ," the 14-year-old high school freshman said, filling in the end of the sentence with her hometown. " Yofi ," Ricky Markovitz's voice congratulated her through the computer...

Travel

Curacao's Curios of History

And that includes its history-making Congregation Mikve Israel-Emanuel

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Elyse Glickman, Jewish Exponent Feature

When we traveled as a family, my parents never chose destinations like Hawaii or the Caribbean. Their explanation? Tropical destinations with fancy resorts were not "real" places. However, Mom and Dad would find Curaçao -- located in the Caribbean's southern reaches -- quite agreeable. While it has its share of resorts, beaches and diving schools, capital city Willemstad also sparkles...

Wellness

In Doctors We Trust ... Right?

A mother's journey to help her sons heal meant re-evaluating that confidence

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Lori Samlin Miller, Jewish Exponent Feature

"No mother wants her child to suffer," Haleh Rabizadeh Resnick states in the beginning of her story, introducing the duality she explores in her new book, Little Patient, Big Doctor: One Mother's Journey . On the surface, it would appear that Resnick -- a Cherry Hill, N.J., Jewish mother of Iranian decent -- is responding to the blotchy rash that...

Travel

Yoga Bares Results

Down Mexico way, peace and quiet -- and contortions

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Lauren Kramer, Jewish Exponent Feature

Puerto and Nuevo Vallarta have become thriving tourist destinations where big-name hotels jostle for space along the beachfront, and the Mexican experience becomes one of turquoise swimming pools and all-inclusive resorts. But I was headed for something quite different, a yoga and surf retreat 35 miles north in a town called Sayulita. Sayulita. The word dances from the lips with...

Travel

Touring Touro

Newport and old times blend in America's oldest functioning synagogue

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George Medovoy, Jewish Exponent Feature

Newport's Touro Synagogue -- a living example of America's colonial past -- greets today's visitors on the edge of a grassy knoll honoring early Jewish patriots. Officially known as Congregation Kahal Kadosh Yeshuat Israel, it is the oldest functioning synagogue in the United States. And staying at the historic Cleveland House bed and breakfast ( www.innsofnewport.com ) on Clarke Street,...