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Does working out keep you Jewish?
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, JNSMar 19, 2015
FOR Daphna Krupp, her daily workout (excluding Shabbat) at the Jewish Community Center (JCC or J) of Greater Baltimore has become somewhat of a ritual. She not only...
Teen dances and shakes to fight Parkinson’s
Suzanne Kurtz Sloan, JTAMar 19, 2015
Teen Hero NEW YORK Zoe Butchen didnt know much about Parkinsons disease the night her dad, Jeff, told her and her brother at their kitchen table of his recent...
Palestinians are embracing yoga
JTAFeb 26, 2015
JERUSALEM Inhale your arms up into warrior one. Exhale and extend your arms into warrior two. I followed the instructors soft but firm voice as she led me and...
Para-chaplain volunteers learn how to ‘be there’
Andrea JacobsFeb 26, 2015
MARGARET BALLONOFF, a para-chaplain for Jewish Family Service since 2009, is refreshingly at ease in her own skin. Grateful for the challenges and rewards inherent in...
Japan struggles with the Holocaust
Cnaan Liphshiz, JTAFeb 12, 2015
FUKUYAMA, JAPAN In the auditorium of this countrys main Holocaust education center, a teenage actor explains the dilemma that faced a Japanese diplomat during WW...
Helping seniors is natural for Detroit teen
Suzanne Kurtz Sloan, JTAFeb 12, 2015
Teen Hero NEW YORK While visiting his grandmother in Florida last winter break, Connor Tukel helped set up her new iPhone. Then it hit me that it was so […]
Jack Adler: Auschwitz, then and now
Chris LeppekFeb 12, 2015
WHEN JACK Adler visited Auschwitz-Birkenau on Jan. 27, the 70th anniversary of the camps liberation in 1945 and during his four previous four trips for the annual...
The other side of the Six Day War
Anthony Weiss, JTAFeb 06, 2015
PARK CITY, UTAH In the wake of Israels seemingly miraculous triumph in the Six Day War in 1967, the countrys victorious soldiers were lionized as heroes. But in...
Azerbaijan comes to Denver
Chris LeppekFeb 05, 2015
Nasimi Aghayev, Consul General of the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a remarkably patient envoy. He admits that he’s grown accustomed to the blank stares with which...
California teen makes good on vow to grandmother
Suzanne Kurtz Sloan, JTAFeb 05, 2015
Teen Hero NEW YORK Shortly before her bat Mitzvah in 2010, Morgan Davidson made a promise to her grandmother stricken with lymphoma that she would do whatever she...
