After word of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s untimely death spread, reaction from both aisles of Congress poured in. Doug Friednash, the chief of staff to former Gov. John Hickenlooper, has been intimately familiar with Graham’s impact on foreign relations, and specifically, his longtime support for Israel.

When a cancer diagnosis comes it’s always a shock — and Dr. Loraine Alderman was no exception. What did surprise her, however, was that among the literature she was reading, she wasn’t finding stories about people like herself, even though she fell into the age group of women most likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer.

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During the decades before the cemetery entrance was moved, visitors to Mt. Nebo entered through a park-like promenade called the George Washington Bicentennial Memorial Grove. At the center of the grove of 200 trees was an obelisk monument erected in 1932 by the Ladies Shroud Society of BMH Congregation in commemoration of George Washington’s 200th birthday.

It is lunchtime at Ramah in the Rockies, which is considered a sacred time for its camp director. Only a phone call from the supplier of a commercial vacuum cleaner can tear Rabbi Eliav Bock away from his campers. “We just got it, and it’s not the right thing,” says Bock.

Israeli-American baseball player Zev Moore signed a professional contract this week with the Trenton Thunder of Major League Baseball’s Draft League. According to Moore’s publicist, he became the second Orthodox Jew to play professional baseball, while also becoming the second player raised in Israel to sign a contract allowing him to compete at that level.