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By Makenzie Greenblatt , other Congregation Beth Israel in Walla Walla got a youthful take on the High Holidays this year. Whitman College junior J
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Rebecca and Daniel are engaged to be married in March 2009 in Atlanta, Ga. Rebecca's cousin, Rabbi Alvin Sugarman, will officiate the ceremony. Rebecc
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Although author Gina Nahai hasn’t set foot on Iranian soil since 1977, she still carries a sense of the place with her in everything she does. A
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By Morris Malakoff, JTNews Correspondent Rabbi Zalman Heber would like to tear down a five-car garage that occupies the lot behind his west Tacoma
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By Jacob Berkman , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — When a group of young philanthropists decided to put together a short Zagat’s-style d
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