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October 13, 2006

For Lisa Wright, one of the few Jews of Lancaster County to live in a rural area with Amish neighbors, what stands out about the past two weeks are mostly the contrasts. Living where she does, on farmland about six miles from the city of Lancaster, Pa., offers “a certain sense of security” from the […]

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eon Levy, a son of Turkish Jewish immigrants who became a philanthropist and leader of several major Jewish organizations in the United States, died Sept. 19 in Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital of heart and lung failure. A resident of Jamaica Estates, Queens, he was 84. Mr. Levy, founder of the American Sephardi Federation and the first Sephardic […]

Shortly after Linda Moses and Arthur Gurevitch, a young couple on the Upper East Side, enrolled their 5-year-old son in an art class this fall at the 92nd Street Y, they discovered that the Y’s Sunday Young Artists class was starting on Sukkot. Moses and Gurevitch, “somewhat observant” Conservative Jews and participants in Y programming […]

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