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…Special Report N r' , \ WJEW from page 13 Temple Israel teacher Josh Goldenberg of West Bloomfield, Cantor Michael Smolash and radio station staffer Josh Loney Corey Berkowitz assists station staffer Lev Beltser. "Maybe we can tell people if they pay enough money, we'll put their kid's bar/bat mitzvah on the air," joked Feldman."There's so much expanding to do. We need to think big, act big and make this thing big." "We did a lot of r...…
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…Don't Write Off The Intermarried Newton, Mass./JTA C harles Dickens' classic A Tale of Two Cities begins with the famous opening line: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times:' Sociologist Steven Cohen's new study on intermarriage has a similar title, but a dif- ferent spirit. Ignoring positive recent evidence from Boston and elsewhere that more intermarried families are raising their children as Jews, Cohen's "A Tale of Two Je...…
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