SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Erin-Kate Escobar, a political science major at the University of San Francisco, had never been interested in her school's Judaic studies program. "It was Judaism as religion," she says. More...
Congregation Beth Judah's Senior Interest Group relived Atlantic City's good old days, with help from guest speaker Allen "Boo" Pergament, at its recent monthly gathering. Pergament got everyone focused on the 1940s with such memories as the Heinz pickle pin, Mr. More...
Atlantic Cape Community College's Academy of Culinary Arts and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Holocaust Resource Center have been awarded a Humanities Festival Grant for a seminar and cooking demonstration, "From Europe to New Jersey: A Sampling of Recipes from Holocaust Survivors: A Taste of New Jersey, Cultures and Culinary Traditions. More...
The Board of Jewish Education's 'Odyssey 2008,' featuring an evening of educational sessions at the Milton and Betty Katz JCC of Margate, was held last Sunday. Above, BJE President Marilyn Rubin (second from left) and Executive Director Linda Kulp (far right) stand with class instructors Cantor Ralph Goren (left) and Executive Director of Friends of Israel William Sutter and his wife, Annette. More photos on Page 8. (Photos by Marilyn Kessler) More...
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Hamas forces in Gaza raided the compound of a powerful Palestinian clan, killing at least 11. Several clan members, including an infant, a Hamas policeman and a young boy caught in the cross-fire were killed in the clashes early this week. More...
Are you ready for a fast quiz on the background of candidates for President of the United States? Good. Here we go. Who earned a law degree and served in the Illinois state legislature for eight years? Then he ran for the United States Senate. Just two years later, he ran for President of the United States? More...
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