Deans’ List Students

The following students from the greater Chadds Ford area earned academic recognition form their colleges and universities. • Haithm Abdou and Daphne Liang, both doctor of pharmacy students, were named to the fall 2014 dean's list at University of the Sciences. Selection for this award is based on completing and passing all assigned courses with no grade below a C and attaining an academic average…

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The Rabbi’s Study: Dealing with conflict

While of course the Hebrew Bible is the central story of the Jewish people, the richness of our tradition and of our essence stems from the fact that we read it as a foundational text supporting a framework woven through with all of the other stories that we have written and discovered and learned and lived since our tradition tells us that God gave the…

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Mind Matters — Meandering mid-winter musings

At the beginning of February, we have Groundhog Day, which actually harkens back to Imbolc, the “cross quarter” day between winter solstice and spring equinox. In times before Europe was called Europe, people marked the day with bonfires of the greens they had festooned their houses with for the winter solstice. No one likes Punxsutawney Phil to see his shadow, but whether he does or…

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