Elkins Park News

Did you hear the one about the rabbi and the architect? Few people have. Which is why the members of Beth Sholom - who worship in the only synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright - are stepping forward to tell the story of how their landmark spiritual home was built.

A suburban Philadelphia family is asking Iranian authorities to show compassion for American hikers who crossed the border into Iran.

ON A CLOUDY Thursday in October, outside the gleaming new building for the Tyler School of Art, students huddled in small groups, smoked hand-rolled cigarettes and leaned casually against well-worn bikes.

Holding signs protesting the health care bill at 20th and Market, near the office of U.S. Sen.

The highly regarded Indian Tiffin is at it again. The growing chain has just opened a new BYOB location at 8080 Old York Rd.

Broadway's Hugh Panaro is Fagin in Walnut Street Theatre's holiday-season production of Lionel Bart's Oliver! , opening Nov.

One of the most architecturally significant synagogues in the world now has its own state-of-the-art, interactive visitors' center.

Bob and Bobbie Leiter of Elkins Park, and Sara and Mark Sokoloff of Fort Washington announce the engagement of their children, Rebecca Susan Leiter and Noah Ian Sokoloff.

The three American hikers detained in Iran, including Joshua Fattal, a 2000 graduate of Cheltenham High School, were dealt a setback yesterday in efforts to negotiate their release after a senior Iranian prosecutor accused them of entering Iran as spies.

MARGATE Bertram Korn Jr., former editor of the Jewish Exponent, will speak about Jews of the Civil War era at the Board of Jewish Education's One Book, One Jewish Community study group 10 a.m. Monday, Nov.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 1:53 pm US/Eastern PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press Writer MINNEAPOLIS The mother of one of three detained Americans accused of espionage by Iranian authorities said Tuesday the group is innocent and she hopes their fates will not get tangled in deadlocked negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.

Unreality-SF.net has interviewed Star Trerk author James Swallow about some of his upcoming projects.

Journalist Edward Gross posted in his SciFi TV Zone.com website an animation that takes place on the bridge of the Enterprise, and it's where you can hear his... lord help us... impersonation of William Shatner .

Journalist Edward Gross posted in his SciFi TV Zone.com website an animation that takes place on the bridge of the Enterprise, and it's where you can hear his... lord help us... impersonation of William Shatner .

Jason Moore should have known that there's no crying in baseball. But then again, he is a Yankees fan.

Leonard Nimoy narrates a new documentary about a historic synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The movie Amelia shows the legendary aviation pioneer at the height of her career.

A rendering of the 85-apartment residence that Federation Housing Inc. plans to build for senior citizens For Federation Housing Inc., the third time proved the charm.

Leonard Nimoy narrates a new documentary about a historic synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The families of three Americans being held in Iran plan to release video footage that they say proves the three were simply on vacation and had no underhand intentions when they strayed across the border.