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Robin Kall-Homonoff is at it again with a new literary venture. Only this time, she’s switching gears from formal and talk show-style to informal and author-centered. Point Street Reading Series will have its first event on March 15 at 7:30 p.m. …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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2/19/16
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Many of us go through periods when we’re feeling down. It can be hard to know who to talk to about negative feelings, especially when you feel you can’t or shouldn’t talk about your struggles. Many institutionalized therapeutic groups don’t …
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ARIEL BROTHMAN
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2/19/16
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Two internationally recognized experts on autism will speak on Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. at the Dwares JCC as part of Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month.
“Autism Today: A Conversation with Barry Prizant and Stephen Shore” will draw …
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LARRY KATZ
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2/19/16
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The Jewish Educators Assembly (JEA), the professional organization of educators in the Conservative movement, just completed its 64th annual conference at the Westin Mt. Laurel in New Jersey. Lawrence Katz, director of Jewish Life and …
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2/19/16
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The Women’s Alliance Endowment Fund (WAEF) membership seeks proposals for the upcoming fiscal year – July 2016-June 2017 – for innovative programs and services that benefit Jewish women and girls and have the potential for long-term …
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2/19/16
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In the past few years, I’ve pored over volumes of letters of such diverse luminaries as Harry Truman, H.L. Mencken, Toulouse-Lautrec, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Robert Frost, Voltaire, E.B. White, George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Edith …
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MEL YOKEN
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2/5/16
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DES MOINES, Iowa (JTA) – Some 50 presidential campaign staffers and volunteers, journalists and local movers and shakers from this capital city’s Jewish community munched on house salads inside a stately ballroom at the downtown World Food Prize …
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JOSH TAPPER
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2/5/16
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On Jan. 31, about 90 community members gathered at the Dwares JCC to hear participants in the Jewish Alliance’s interfaith Israel mission speak about the trip.
Many of the 18 members of the mission participated in the program, which …
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2/5/16
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Inspired by the popular Jewish folk story, “Bone Button Borscht,” by Aubrey Davis, Cohen School students worked as a school community on Jan. 17 and helped feed people who are hungry. In this story, a tired Jewish beggar looking for food and a …
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DORI ADLER
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2/5/16
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How do you feel when you receive a gift? What about when you give a gift? Is it a momentary feeling or a lasting one? Now think about how you feel when you give a donation to an organization you believe in.
Where does giving fit into your life? …
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Sara Ades Goodwin
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2/5/16
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