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Ayelet Nation’s baby brother
Uriel Heilman, JTAJun 26, 2014
NEW YORK Even before their daughter, Ayelet Galena, was diagnosed with a rare bone marrow disease called dyskeratosis congenita around her first birthday, parents...
20 years later, impact of Lubavitcher Rebbe grows
JNSJun 26, 2014
TWO well-known contemporary rabbis. Two prolific authors. Two personal journeys. One Rebbe. And a remarkable legacy that just keeps growing. Rabbis Joseph Telushkin and...
Compassion for the autistic
Suzanne Kurtz Sloan, JTAJun 19, 2014
Teen Hero WASHINGTON Watching his cousin suffer both socially and academically from the effects of autism inspired Zak Kukoff at an early age to help other children...
From Birthright to the world
Ben Sales, JTAJun 12, 2014
JERUSALEM Its leaders call it a historic development, a paradigm shift and a change in the relationship between Israel and Diaspora Jewry. But when it...
Dallas teen notices when help is needed
Suzanne Kurtz Sloan, JTAJun 07, 2014
Teen Hero WASHINGTON As a young child, Dalya Romaner learned to appreciate her surroundings and lend a hand when people were in need. I am very fortunate, said...
Will a new community campus save Wilkes-Barre?
Uriel Heilman, JTAJun 07, 2014
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. There once was a time when the Jewish community in this Pennsylvania city just west of the Pocono Mountains was thriving. That much is clear from a...
Holocaust glimpse takes a lifetime toll
Chris LeppekMay 22, 2014
Memorial Day feature 1945, April 6 has come and gone 69 times. Leon Tulper has dreaded each and every one of them. “Come April the 6th, I don’t want to talk to...
Lag b’Omer…when I was a kid
Deborah Fineblum, JNSMay 15, 2014
By Deborah Fineblum, JNS ONE of Pnina Newirth’s earliest childhood memories is a trip to Mount Meron on Lag b’Omer. But this was no ordinary family...
National Hadassah president speaks
Chris LeppekMay 09, 2014
Expect no sob stories from Marcie Natan. That’s just not the way the national president of Hadassah rolls. The top executive of the mammoth women’s Zionist...
In Israel, haredi men going to work
Ben Sales, JTAMay 08, 2014
TEL AVIV When Moshe Friedman turned 31, he made what was for him a radical decision: He left school and launched a start-up. Plenty of Israelis jump from graduate...
