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A liturgist, Rabbi Jules Harlow brought a poet’s sensibility and a musician’s cadence to the style of prayer in Conservative Judaism for much of the second half of the 20th century.

Robie H. Harris, 83, whose best-selling sex-ed books for children earned her awards and a prominent place on lists of banned books, died January 6 in New York. She was 83.

(JTA) — Rabbi Jules Harlow, a liturgist who edited what became the standard prayer book used in North American Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, died Tuesday. He was 92.

Though Pope Benedict XVI said he believed in Jewish and Christian coexistence, his record on Judaism and antisemitism was mixed at best.

Since the earliest days of this newspaper, there’s been no shortage of reporters, teachers, parents and community leaders lamenting the shortcomings of Jewish education throughout our country and region.