Josh Yaffa
By Josh Yaffa
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Culture Hebrew Students Earn Credit
When Katie Melchior received her diploma this summer from San Diego’s Westview High School, her transcript showed that she had fulfilled the foreign-language requirement for her local school district by taking three years of Hebrew. Westview, however, doesn’t offer Hebrew classes; its foreign-language courses are limited to Spanish and French. Instead, Melchior studied the language…
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News Evelyn Dubrow, 95, Advocated for Workers’ Rights
Evelyn “Evy” Dubrow, a respected and widely known champion of workers’ rights, died June 20 at the age of 95. Dubrow rose to prominence in Washington political circles as a lobbyist for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union — a position from which she pushed for a higher minimum wage, fair trade laws, family and…
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