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…Editor's Letter American Jewish Resilience ewish history is a repository of lessons. So when I and expanse of our branch network so we don't face hav- came across the provocative Jonathan Sarna inter- ing to whittle services even more. view "Reinventing American Judaism" in the Fall Turning to Jewish institutional trends, Sarna talked 2009 issue of Reform Judaism magazine, I was intrigued. about mergers among organizations: Jewish with Jewis...…
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…T) PART k port HE FAMILY Gift Of Community from page 15 Michelle Chekan, Karen Simmons, Susie Sills, Judy Kepes and Linda Finkel at the TOV event to assemble gift packages. Linda Lenchner of Bloomfield Hills organizes stacks of applesauce for the Rosh Hashanah packages. include tissue purse packs, magnifying lenses, travel lotions and soaps, honey sticks, applesauce, challah rolls and a 2009-2010 Jewish holiday calendar. "Each package ...…
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…Researchers, writers analyze state of Jewish boys. Zach Feinberg, Danny Jackson and Eliav Ehrenkrantz of Philadelphia spoke about Jewish life at Moving Traditions. A t 15, Apollo Lev was the physical embodiment of healthy, rosebud youth, with cherubic features — bright clear skin, plump lips, a faint smudge of pale cherry pink on each cheek. Despite his disheveled clothes — hood- ed sweatshirt and jeans frayed within an inch of their exist...…
…Saval's book is one of the latest tack- ling the subject of the crisis of teenage boys. They include Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men" (Basic Books, 2007), by Leonard Sax; Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different — and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men (Celestial Arts, 2008), by Steve Biddulph and Paul Stanish; and The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Fin...…
