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Crash kills three workers at Jewish camp in Pennsylvania
Jewish Journal
May 27, 2016
Three staff members of a Jewish camp in eastern Pennsylvania were killed when the van they were traveling in lost control and drove into a drainage pond near the camp just before 1 a.m. Thursday.
In fading Pennsylvania city, Jews bet on $11 million hub to save community
Jewish Journal
June 3, 2014
There once was a time when the Jewish community in this Pennsylvania city just west of the Pocono Mountains was thriving.\n
A Jew tours for Mitt Romney
Dennis Prager
November 1, 2012
I spent last week speaking to thousands of Romney supporters in four “battleground” states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Virginia. I traveled with my Salem Radio Network colleagues Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved and the actor Jon Voight, one of the few Hollywood stars who is a politically outspoken conservative.
Former US Senator Arlen Specter dies of cancer at 82
Jewish Journal
October 14, 2012
Arlen Specter, the longtime moderate Jewish Republican senator from Pennsylvania whose surprise party switch helped pass President Obama\’s health-care reforms, has died.
Arlen Specter facing another bout with cancer
Jewish Journal
August 28, 2012
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter reportedly is “battling for his life.”
Pittsburgh rabbi files federal lawsuit over Pa. funeral policy
Jewish Journal
August 7, 2012
An Orthodox rabbi from Pittsburgh filed a federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Board of Funeral Directors for requiring the oversight of licensed funeral directors in Jewish burials.
Penn State’s Jewish community weighs how to move forward
Jewish Journal
July 24, 2012
One unlikely venue for fallout from the Penn State University sex abuse scandal is the campus Hillel, for which now ousted university president Graham Spanier — the school’s first Jewish leader — was a fundraiser and vocal supporter.
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