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ENCINO, Calif., Aug. 3 (JTA) — If you can read this, thank a teacher. And thank High Priest Joshua ben Gamla, who established the first system of compulsory public education in the first century C.E., arranging, according to the Talmud, for teachers “in every province and in every city.” As we approach the beginning of […]

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1 – In politics, a clever quip suggests that Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans. On Monday, however, with the Republicans in town, the conference room at the Jewish Community Services Building in Center City was packed with Jewish and Hispanic panelists and voters who regularly eschew the Democrats and […]