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Grassroots Jewish Aid Group Sending 100 Volunteers To Oklahoma

05/21/2013 | Adam Dickter and JTA

The Jewish Disaster Relief Coalition, a grassroots organization founded in 2010, is organizing volunteers to travel to tornado ravaged southern Oklahoma to aid in the recovery, the organization told The Jewish Week Wednesday.

Real-Estate Investing, Hillel Style

05/14/2013 | Uriel Heilman | JTA

Orlando, Fla. — Real estate developer Hank Katzen has a conviction: If you build it, they will come.

Except this is no baseball field in an Iowa cornfield. It’s a $60 million, 600,000-square-foot luxury dormitory at the nation’s second-largest college campus, the University of Central Florida in this city.

When it opens in August, the new dorm will push the bounds of cushiness. Every room has en-suite bathrooms and flat-screen TVs.

Survey: Jewish Camps Serving More Children With Disabilities Than Expected

05/02/2013 | Julie Wiener | Associate Editor

Jewish overnight camps are serving more children with disabilities and special needs than had previously been believed, but are doing little to publicize or market these offerings, according to a preliminary study released Wednesday by the Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC).

Authorities Eye Boston Bomb Suspect Link To Waltham Murder Of Jewish Friends

04/24/2013 | Stewart Ain | Staff Writer

The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings are being investigated in connection with the savage killings of three men — two of whom were Jewish — in a Waltham, Mass., apartment in September 2011, according to the Boston Globe.

What Boston Hospitals Learned From Israel

04/24/2013 | Ben Sales | JTA

Tel Aviv — Minutes after a terrorist attack killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, doctors and nurses at the city’s hospitals faced a harrowing scene — severed limbs, burned bodies, shrapnel buried in skin.

Governor's Trade Mission Brings Four Israeli Startups To Maryland

04/23/2013 | Staff Report

Four Israeli high-tech companies will be opening offices in Maryland after the state’s governor, Martin O’Malley, wooed them during an eight-day economic trade mission to Israel and Jordan, O’Malley’s office announced Tuesday.

The companies are Shekel Scales in Kibbutz Beit Keshet in the Lower Galilee, and three Tel Aviv-based companies: Askimo, Roboteam and Hybrid Security .