Miriam Colton
By Miriam Colton
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News Yugntruf Preserves More Than Words
For one devoted group, this so-called “dying language” is forever young. These Yiddish speakers are not ultra-Orthodox Jews sequestered in Williamsburg or Eastern European immigrants speaking the tongue of their yidishe mames. They are Jews in their 20s, 30s and 40s building a bona fide community of Yiddish speakers. Yugntruf, “Call to Youth,” is celebrating…
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News Mikey Butler, 24, Loses Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis
Frank Michael “Mikey” Butler, the Pittsburgh native who publicly battled cystic fibrosis, died on January 26 at the age of 24. He had been hospitalized for more than four months to treat the lymphoma he developed as a result of a lung transplant. Through regular e-mail updates from Butler’s mother, Nina, thousands of people have…
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News Murder-Suicide Spotlights Woes Of Immigrants
It reads like a warped novel of murder and betrayal: A Jewish man in a French jail awaiting extradition to the United States. A wife held on $1 million bail. Parents committing double-suicide over a family disgrace. But for the Goldman, Sapiro and Zonis families, the story is all too real. Paul Goldman, a 39-year-old…
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News Israel Programs Rebound
Rebecca Blank, a sophomore at Blind Brook Public High School in Westchester County, N.Y., has wanted to study abroad for several years. Highly active in her temple youth group and a longtime attendee of the Reform movement’s summer camps, her first choice was Israel. So last week, Blank boarded an El Al plane at Kennedy…
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News Israel Programs Rebound
Rebecca Blank, a sophomore at Blind Brook Public High School in Westchester County, N.Y., has wanted to study abroad for several years. Highly active in her temple youth group and a longtime attendee of the Reform movement’s summer camps, her first choice was Israel. So last week, Blank boarded an El Al plane at Kennedy…
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Culture New Initiative Aims To Recruit, Retain Jewish Teachers
To spotlight what it regards as one of the most pressing problems plaguing Jewish education today, the Jewish Education Service of North America, known as JESNA, will host a summit next month to address recruitment and retention of teachers in Jewish schools. Major Jewish philanthropists — including Michael Steinhardt, Susan Crown and Edgar and Charles…
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Israel News U.N. Recognizes Human Rights Activist’s Work
Shulamith Koenig often quotes the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas, insisting that if only one person was missing from the world, the absolute truth would be different. “This is what I do,” Koenig said. “I want to include every individual so everyone can understand human rights.” Last month Koenig, 73, became only the fifth American…
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News Chanukah Menorahs Recalled by Crate and Barrel
Just hours before Chanukah began, the popular catalog store Crate and Barrel recalled 800 menorahs because of a fire hazard. If the candles in the menorah are allowed to burn down completely, the menorah’s acrylic base can ignite, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in an official statement on December 19 (Chanukah began that…
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