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<i>Rabbi Daniel and Anna Yolkut</i> Poale Zedeck names new rabbi after long search
Congregation Poale Zedeck, an Orthodox congregation in Squirrel Hill, has voted to hire Daniel Yolkut as its new rabbi. The vote, which came shortly before Purim last month, capped a long process...
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<i>Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 / JTA<br> Conservative Jewish women wear prayer shawls and carry Torah scrolls at the Western Wall, Dec. 18, 2009. The conflict between these women and religious Jews in Israel has sparked different responses from local Jews. Courtesy Yossi Zamir, JTA. </i> Local Jews divided over treatment of women at Wall
On a January morning in 1994, Judy Palkovitz was getting ready to pray. It was just after 6 a.m., and along with 16 other women, she’d walked through Jerusalem towards the Western Wall, the holies...
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<i>Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 / JTA<br> Conservative Jewish women wear prayer shawls and carry Torah scrolls at the Western Wall, Dec. 18, 2009. The conflict between these women and religious Jews in Israel has sparked different responses from local Jews. Courtesy Yossi Zamir, JTA. </i> Action or silence?
On a January morning in 1994, Judy Palkovitz was getting ready to pray. It was just after 6 a.m., and along with 16 other women, she’d walked through Jerusalem towards the Western Wall, the holies...
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<i>aMax & David’s International Kosher Cuisine in Elkins Park, Pa., is the first restaurant in the state to be Tav HaYosher certified.</i> Ethical kosher seal comes to Pa., but will it catch on?
Hanging next to the bathroom in Max and David’s International Kosher Cuisine, a two-year-old upscale eatery in Elkins Park, Pa., you’ll find a veritable hall of fame, “certificates that we like t...
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<i>Hillel Academy photo<br> Magee-Womens Hospital President Leslie Davis addresses Hillel Academy students during a recent visit.</i> Hillel students visit hospital, explore differences in health care among nations
From Congress to water coolers, health care is a heated topic of discussion these days. To gain some perspective, the students at the Hillel Academy’s Girls High School are engaged in a six—week, ...
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Sofers shed no light on Youlus Torahs’ history
In an effort to exonerate Rabbi Menachem Youlus from charges that his tales of Torah rescue are lies, his Save a Torah foundation recently retained two respected sofers to corroborate the authenti...
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JDC exec visits Pittsburgh to talk of aiding forgotten Jews
Arriving in Pittsburgh yesterday, Steve Schwager, chief executive officer of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, spoke with community leaders and major donors this week about pushin...
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Survivor’s cookbook supports Israel soup kitchen, links generations
A soup kitchen changed Joanne Caras’ life, but not because she needed food. She needed to feed the souls of the international Jewish community. She just didn’t know it at the time. Caras, a Florid...
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Local Israelis speak out on expatriate voting bill
Thirty-five years ago, when Tzvi Shuldiner first emigrated to America from Israel after the Yom Kippur War, his first reaction wasn’t awe, or extreme joy or remorse. It was a bit of confusion. “P...
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This Arthur Miller play about two estrange...
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