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Kavod Senior Life zooms into the 21st century

doesn’t like talking about himself. He likes talking about the institution he heads: Kavod Senior Life. He likes talking about how to enhance seniors’ lives. He has a lot to say. But I like talking about Michael Klein because I think that the personality and the experience behind the institution illuminates the institution itself. Klein’s personality is impressive: quiet, competent, friendly, focused, yet not overbearing; obviously in love with making things work for seniors. I especially liked it when Klein told me what made a big difference was his gap year in Israel, in 1974.  “It really exposed me to the Jewish part of my life,” Klein says, even though he grew up in Boston’s Jewish hub of Dorchester and Roxbury.  Often in the Jewish community we talk […]
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