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The Times of Israel

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Writer: Josh Lipowsky

August 11, 2012
3:58 am

Young Jews play on a cellphone in a synagogue during morning prayers (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Looking for a Jewish education? There’s an app for that

Organizations across the spectrum are utilizing mobile and digital technologies to reach new people across multiple platforms

By Josh Lipowsky

August 9, 2012
5:54 am

Baltimore High School students engaging in the Teens Can Identify program, which supports Jewish life and learning in local non-Jewish independent schools. (courtesy TCI program of The Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center for Jewish Education in Baltimore/JTA)

Taking outreach to the schools

Though religion in US public schools is a sticky subject, some Jewish leaders are looking to Christian precedents and creating Jewish lunch clubs

By Josh Lipowsky

July 26, 2012
12:48 am

Sarah Meretsky, second from right, co-director of the Penn State Chabad, runs a number of programs throughout the year with her husband, Rabbi Nosson Meretsky, for the approximately 4,000 Jewish students on the State College campus. (photo credit: Courtesy Chabad of Penn State/JTA)

Penn State’s Jewish community weighs how to move forward

With Jewish students making up 10% of the university population, a blot on former university president Graham Spanier, a champion of Jewish student causes, is a difficult stigma to overcome

By Josh Lipowsky

July 9, 2012
10:58 am

Palate cleansing pickle. (photo credit: marykbaird, morguefile.com)

The ever-popular Jewish pickle

As July marks National Pickle Month, the 2011 Teaneck Pickle-Eating Champion writes about a longstanding culinary love story

By Josh Lipowsky

May 16, 2012
7:51 pm

Ron Ben-Israel, a former dancer, has gone on to become the host of Food Network's 'Sweet Genius.' (photo credit: Food Network/JTA)

Israeli pastry chef is fully baked talent behind ‘Sweet Genius’

The Food Network studios are a long way from Ron Ben-Israel’s beginnings… as a ballet dancer in Tel Aviv

By Josh Lipowsky