Lisa Keys
By Lisa Keys
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News Jewish Military Families Finding A Virtual Home On ‘The Brave’
For Judy Ledger, an administrator at an Atlanta synagogue, the bumper stickers on her Honda SUV speak a thousand words. On one side, a sticker proclaims — in Hebrew — her love of nature. On the other, she proudly declares “My Son is in the Army,” “My Daughter is in the Army” and, simply, “Go…
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News When Empty Nesters Go Looking for God
Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., Gennye Feldman, along with her mother and her four siblings, kept kosher, ate Sabbath dinner on Fridays and drove to services at their Conservative synagogue every weekend. “Judaism was definitely a core part of our family values,” Gennye, a 28-year-old marketing manager, told the Forward. Now a young adult living…
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News Unflippable Lawyer Bites Mickey D’s With Burger Suit
At times it seemed as if the entire McWorld was against Samuel Hirsch. The Manhattan lawyer catapulted to infamy last summer as he spearheaded a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s on behalf of obese teenagers. As the latest player in the assign-the-blame-game, Hirsch became the brunt of late-night talk show jokes and a poster boy for…
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News How a Teenage Mom Came To Lead Top Group for Reproductive Choice
Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, looks every bit the executive, wearing a black turtleneck and gray print blazer and with her brown hair styled into a smart, shiny bob. She sits comfortably in her corner office, one with sweeping views of a blizzard swirling down Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue, 14 stories…
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News Weddings To Make Martha Proud
As if finding that perfect Jewish soul mate wasn’t difficult enough, now comes the trickiest part of all: planning a Jewish wedding. Fortunately, Rita Milos Brownstein, a former art director at Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful, has created “Jewish Weddings: A Guide to Creating the Wedding of Your Dreams” (Simon and Schuster), which walks hapless,…
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News A Wave of Young Families Washes Ashore in S. Florida
Strollers aren’t allowed in the Boca Raton Synagogue on the Sabbath, so each Saturday harried parents jockey beneath the wide awning for the prime spots to park their Peregos and Maclarens. “You know how some places auction parking spots as fundraisers? Well, we’re considering offering reserved stroller spots,” said the synagogue’s rabbi, Kenneth Brander. “This…
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News Field of Dreams
His birth certificate may say Daron Joffe, but to his friends, family and students, he’s known as “Farmer D.” At 26, Joffe has an impressive seven years of organic soil ground into the treads of his well-worn boots (metaphorically speaking). But it was only recently, he said, that he discovered the symbiotic relationship between his…
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News For Tech-pop Star ‘My Robot Friend,’ Man Is the Machine
You could say that Howard Rigberg rocks the “computer programmer” look: He wears wire-rimmed glasses and sports a heavy backpack draped over both of his shoulders. His hair is graying. He walks with a shuffle. Ask him a simple question — how old are you? — and you realize that Rigberg is possibly more of…
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