Rebecca Dube
By Rebecca Dube
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News He Conquered the KKK — Now on to Flushing
As the new rabbi at the Free Synagogue of Flushing, Michael Weisser faces a formidable challenge: revitalizing a historic synagogue in a neighborhood that has gone from being heavily Jewish to being populated almost entirely by Chinese immigrants. Luckily for his new congregation, Weisser is no stranger to accomplishing the impossible. When he was a…
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Culture Gaucher Patients Cope With Drug Shortage, as New Treatments Beckon
For thousands of people with Gaucher disease, the most common genetic disorder affecting Jews, the next few months will be challenging. Many are going without the drug used to treat their potentially life-threatening enzyme disorder, after a virus contaminated a Boston-area manufacturing plant of biotechnology company Genzyme. Meanwhile, Gaucher patients and their doctors are watching…
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News Hasidim Evacuate Catskills Camp Site, Leaving Plans for New Town in Doubt
Hasidic campers and families finally evacuated a Catskills-area lodge that was cited by the New York State Department of Health for numerous safety violations, just hours ahead of a judge’s deadline. The reluctant exodus on the afternoon of August 9 from the Machne Bnos Square girls’ camp, at the site of the former Homowack Lodge…
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Life Birthright’s New High-Profile Flak
Birthright, a respected organization that sends young adults ages 18-26 on educational trips to Israel, recently hired the public relations firm 5W Public Relations. The fast-growing firm’s CEO, Ronn Torossian, is among the ranks of celebrity publicists who sometimes make the news — or at least the gossip pages — themselves. 5WPR, as it’s known,…
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News Bunk 19, Forever: Reuniting After 58 Years
It began, as so much does these days, with Google. Gita Segal Rotenberg, 71, and living in Toronto, wondered what had become of her old friends from Camp Ramah in the Poconos, the girls she’d spent summers with in the early 1950s. So she entered a name into the search engine. Several months later, her…
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News How Kidneys Are Bought And Sold on Black Market
Six months ago, Ronen came to the United States from Israel on a life-or-death mission. He needed a kidney transplant, or he would die. Soon after he arrived and moved into a donated basement apartment in Brooklyn, a man approached him and offered to give him what he wanted most in the world — for…
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News Catskills Standoff Over Rundown Camp
A standoff is simmering at a summer camp run by a Hasidic sect that is defying a mandatory “Order to Evacuate” issued by New York State for numerous safety violations. Homowack Lodge, located in Sullivan County, N.Y., about 70 miles northwest of New York City, was once a premier Borscht Belt resort. Like so many…
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News New Owner of Agriprocessors Faces Old Questions About Its Plans For Company
The new owner of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, whose bid of $8.5 million for the troubled kosher meatpacking plant was accepted by a federal bankruptcy court judge July 20, is stepping into a business, and an industry, that has weathered changes under a harsh spotlight in recent years. Agriprocessors was bought at auction…
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