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Man with Asperger’s is award-winning activist
JTAJan 29, 2015
NEW YORK When Ari Neeman was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome at age 12, his life changed. Administrators at the Conservative Jewish day school that Neeman had...
Sid Shafner helped liberate Dachau
Andrea JacobsJan 22, 2015
Shafner, 93, is reading the newspaper alone at a corner table at Brookdale Mountain View. Sitting in a wheelchair, he blends into the crowd. No one would suspect that 70...
‘Operation Soap Dish’ earns honors for teen
Suzanne Kurtz Sloan, JTAJan 22, 2015
WASHINGTON With her $4.50 weekly allowance, Adena Rochelson wanted to fill an empty shelf at a local food pantry near her upstate New York home with toiletries and...
Pomegranate juice a vehicle for chasidic help and healing
Uriel Heilman, JTAJan 15, 2015
NEW SQUARE, NY Get Rabbi Shulim Greenberg talking about the health benefits of pomegranate juice and he sounds like a homeopathic nutritionist with a Yiddish...
Hand in Hand: Israelis and Arabs learn together
IJN StaffJan 08, 2015
By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line WHEN PRESIDENT Obama lit a menorah in the White House last month, it was a colorful olive wood menorah made by Hand in Hand […]
Top ten IJN stories of 2014
IJN StaffDec 31, 2014
Curious what our top stories of the year were? Re-read the 10 stories that kept getting hit on IJN.com. Reb Zalman Schacter Shalomi dies by Andrea Jacobs The father of...
Disability self-advocates envision a more inclusive Jewish community
JNSDec 26, 2014
WHAT IF Moses never accepted the task to lead the Jews out of Egypt because of his speech impediment? Award-winning author Chava Willig Levy, a polio survivor, uses the...
Website brings community service into 21st century
Suzanne Kurtz Sloan, JTADec 18, 2014
WASHINGTON Fulfilling community service hours can sometimes be drudgery for students who must complete the requirement before graduating from high school. Edan...
Non-Jewish filmmaker has fond West Side memories
Chris LeppekDec 12, 2014
CHANUKAH EDITION SECTION D PAGE 4 now and then, filmmaker and screenwriter Haylar Garcia finds himself in a room full of Hollywood professionals, usually pitching a...
When getting a little gelt was as good as gold
Edmon J. Rodman, JTADec 10, 2014
CHANUKAH EDITION SECTION E PAGE 8 LOS ANGELES What can a buck get you on Chanukah? Maybe a gold mesh bag of chocolate coins or a lighter for your […]
