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Beyond perhaps identifying the date, June 14, few Americans today could identify any characteristics or traditions that surround Flag Day. Fewer still know that a Jewish philanthropist from St. Louis has been called “the father of Flag Day.” On June 14, 1777, Congress approved the design of the United States flag as designed by Betsy […]

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Dr. Ruth Westheimer has become an American icon, one of our culture’s most famous sex educators and therapists. In 1938, when Westheimer was 10 years old and living in Germany, her father was sent to a detention camp and she was sent to an orphanage in Switzerland. At 16, she immigrated to Palestine and joined the Haganah resistance movement as […]

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American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) designed more than 500 completed projects: Homes, schools, skyscrapers, churches, offices, museums. And one synagogue. When Beth Shalom Congregation moved from downtown Philadelphia to the suburbs, the synagogue board wanted to make a bold statement with their architecture–and so they hired Wright to redesign their building. Construction began in 1953 and was completed […]

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