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Hillel Kuttler
By Hillel Kuttler
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Israel News How Jewish Summer Camps Are Coping With Murders of Israeli Teenagers
(JTA) — On the morning of June 30, the children began arriving at Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia, Wash., ready for a fun-filled summer. But shortly before the first little feet descended the bus steps, the sleepaway camp’s Israeli counselors learned from back home about the discovery of the bodies of three teens kidnapped in the…
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News Eddie Gottlieb’s Story of Immigrant Success Resonates in South Philly
Down the corridor outside the administrative offices at South Philadelphia High School run several display cases honoring storied alumni like actors Jack Klugman and Eddie Fisher and singer Marian Anderson. But during his four years as principal of Southern, as insiders call the school, Otis Hackney III never realized that a framed diploma of legendary…
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News Philadelphia Basketball Great Eddie Gottlieb Cited as Immigrant Role Model
Jewish basketball great Eddie Gottlieb was posthumously honored as a pioneer who rose from an immigrant student to a founder of one of the sports’ most iconic brands. A marker was dedicated by state and city officials Wednesday on the grounds of South Philadelphia High School, from which Gottlieb graduated in 1916 to begin a…
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News Rare Detroit Jewish Combination as Ian Kinsler Reports to Brad Ausmus
(JTA) — The rarity arose in the initial meeting of first-year Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus and his second baseman Ian Kinsler, newly traded from the Texas Rangers: a Jewish player reporting to a Jewish manager. Ausmus was “raised the same way I was,” Kinsler learned, with one Jewish parent and an upbringing in which…
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News 10 Jewish Baseball Stars To Watch in 2014
(JTA) — In the biblical tradition of lingering in the desert en route to the Promised Land, Major League Baseball teams are packing up and embarking on their exodus from Arizona (and Florida) spring training sites to begin the new season. Rosters won’t be finalized until this weekend, but 10 Jewish players are likely to…
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Culture ‘Hockey Maven’ Stan Fischler Has Love Affair With Sport — and Israel
(JTA) — As the Boston Bruins buzz the Islanders net throughout the opening period of a game at the Nassau Coliseum, Stan Fischler is standing 10 feet behind the Plexiglas to the left of New York goaltender Kevin Poulin. Fischler, a hockey broadcaster for four decades, can feel the rattling boards of forechecking Bruins. There’s…
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Food The Mystery of the ‘Jewish Woman’s Cookbook’
Tara Lotstein purchased a Hungarian-Jewish cookbook, with a recipe written at the back, that made it through the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Tara Lotstein) BALTIMORE (JTA) — The tattered book with the beige cover was just the sort of thing Tara Lotstein was looking to purchase when she found it online in late 2012. Its title…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva Basketball Star Rebecca Yoshor Goes to Head of the Glass
(JTA) — Watching Rebecca Yoshor in action for the Yeshiva University women’s basketball team, the skills are evident: the shotmaking, quickness, leadership and court smarts. They are skills honed in what her father describes as “fierce games” with her brothers and the neighborhood kids in the driveway of her Houston home and playing for the…
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