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October 22, 2008  RSS feed
Festive procession marks Kellman Brown Academy move
"Wow!" was Martin Greenberg's first word when he walked into the new Kellman Brown Academy. The fifth grader saw the building for the first time on Oct. 16, the day the Jewish day school moved from Chapel Ave. in Cherry Hill to Laurel Oak Rd. in Voorhees. "It looks amazing. Everything is new," said Greenberg. More...
Candidates duke it out at congressional forum
No love lost between John Adler, Chris Myers, during Oct. 19 Election Forum
By HARRIET KESSLER Voice staff

With Chris Myers (Republican) calling the NJ State Senator a "serial taxer," and John Adler (Democrat) telling the Medford Mayor, "don't be a jerk," the gloves were nowhere in sight during the Oct. 19 third Congressional District Election Forum. More...

Radical Israeli settlers angry, disillusioned, turn to violence
By DINA KRAFT JTA

JERUSALEM— Marking the close of the Fast of Gedaliah, a mournful day that commemorates the biblical-era political assassination of a Jew by another Jew, some 200 religious and secular Israelis assembled outside the Jerusalem home of Professor Ze'ev Sternhell with a blunt message: No More Gedaliahs. More...

 Local News
• article has image MEET RABBI JOSEPH M. DOMOSH…
'Mitzvot & motorcycles a good mix,' says Burlington rabbi
FAMILY: Parents: The late Gail and Stephen. Children: Josh, 17, and Jacob, 12. ALMA MATERS: East Stroudsberg University, Bachelor's in Sports Medicine; Central Michigan University, Master's in Exercise Science; Maimonides University, West Miami Beach, ABD in Rabbinics and Jewish Studies,. More...
• article has image More than 100 teens enjoy bang-up 'Back to School Bash'
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 Mideast
• 1973 Yom Kippur War documents declassified
WAR DOC
JERUSALEM—Top Israeli army officials did not know what was happening in the field during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, according to documents newly declassified by Israel's Defense Ministry. More...
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• Ill Iranian boy treated in Israel
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 Agency
• Hatch, Match, Dispatch' subjects of fall Catholic-Jewish Inst. lectures
Birth, marriage and death, virtually every family's major life cycle events, will be explored from Catholic and Jewish perspectives during the Catholic-Jewish Institute for Understanding fall semester. The Institute is the adult education component of the Catholic Jewish Commission of Southern New Jersey. More...
• article has image JFCS remembers Dr. Sam Gordon
• JCF program crosses the Delaware
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 World News
• Haider killed in accident
Joerg Haider, a far-right politician in Austria who had praised Nazi employment policies, died in a road accident. Haider, the governor of the province of Carinthia, was killed when his car ran off the road as he was driving to a family gathering. He was 58. More...
• NY federation may tap reserves
• French panel probes al-Dura
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 Life Cycles
• article has image BACK-HOFFMAN
Engagements:
Ira and Gloria Back of Cherry Hill announce the engagement of their daughter, Susan Jane Back, to David Adam Hoffman, son of Jerome and Sandra Hoffman of Broomall, PA. Susan is a graduate of the Univ. of Pennsylvania and Temple Univ. School of Medicine. She is a board certified pediatrician having completed her training at Children's Hospital of Phila. More...
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 Obituaries
• DEATH NOTICES
MIRIAM (nee Olinsky) BLANC died on Oct. 1. Wife of the late Harry Blanc. Mother of Estelle (Dr. Raphael) Price and Naomi (Theodore) Ellenberg- Dukas. Sister of Bernice Paul and Ann Gold. Sister-in-law of Connie Olinsky. Grandmother of four. Mrs. Blanc was an artist, writer, dress designer and creative thinker. More...
• Karl Goodstein dies; was Jewish activist
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 Do It!
• Events
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 ADATH EMANU-EL CPR for family and friends will be led by the Mt. Laurel EMS. The course is free and open to anyone over the age of 12. Registration is required. Call Bob Charen at 778-7493 for details. More...
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 Going Solo
• Events
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 TEMPLE EMANUEL South Jersey Singles meeting at 7 p.m. Call 489-0029 for details. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 MOSAIC OUTDOOR CLUB OF PHILA. Halloween Spookfest at Indian Acres Tree Farm in Medford. The group will carpool at 6:30 p.m. from Olga's Diner in Marlton. Please RSVP to Ruth at 428- 0706. More...
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 Kid Stuff
• Events
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM Young Members Group Family Shabbat Service and Dinner at 6:15 p.m. Magician to follow. Open to all and cost is $18 for adults and $10 for children. Call Stacey Chazin at 424-6108 to register. More...
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 Editorial
• Root, root, root for the Phillies!
So you're not going to read about the tanking economy and rapidly disappearing stock portfolios. You're not going to read about the election, prospects for Mideast peace, political turmoil in Israel, or any number of other weighty problems facing the people of the world—at least not here. More...
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 Letters
• South Jersey still has branch of Workmen's Circle
My congratulations to the staff members of the Jewish Federation of Southern NJ for their mitzvah project of painting the fence around the New Camden Cemetery on erev Rosh Hashanah. However, the article about the project contains (Oct. More...
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 Religion Column
• article has image It's always darkest before the dawn
Parashat Bereshit Gen. 1:1-6:8 Pr. Is. 42:5-43:10 Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to be the first person on earth, with everything new and unknown? We know that the rabbis of old certainly did, because many midrashim describe Adam's first impressions of the world. More...
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