How to Help New Graduates Tackle the Challenges of Commencement
Every year, usually in May and June, young men and women participate in commencement exercises.
The graduates are beginning a new chapter in their lives....
Elderly Jewish Woman’s Death Shines Light on Elder Abuse, Neglect
Update (June 19): Alessandro Giribaldi of Giribaldi & Manaras P.C. is now named as representing Ellyn Gottlieb in her criminal docket.
Original story:
A criminal case...
New Kavod Initiative Provides Emergency Funds for Holocaust Survivors
An estimated one of every three Holocaust survivors in the United States today lives at or near the poverty line.
In Philadelphia, they will now...
Report Lists Several Underperforming Nursing Homes in Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey
The nursing home industry was rocked June 3 when Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey and Sen. Pat Toomey released a previously unpublicized federal list of...
Ways to Make Happiness Your No. 1 Goal
It is not always easy to be happy — even though we live in a world where we are often told the contrary.
Life has...
M.S. St. Louis Survivor Ronnie Breslow Is Still Fighting Anti-Semitism
Holocaust survivor Ronnie Breslow, a Jewish woman who fled Germany as a child, is still fighting anti-Semitism and educating young people and the community...
Survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz Preserves Her Life Through Poetry
When Itka Zygmuntowicz reflects on her life — her imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, her postwar life in Sweden, her flourishing in the United States —...
Pam Rogow Goes Retro with Mt. Airy Typewriter Shop
It seems that just about everyone who wanders into Pam Rogow’s shop has some sort of typewriter tale.
The room, filled with 50 manual and...
Rabbi Howard Bogot Continues Teaching Passion Into His 80s
Rabbi Howard Bogot, 81, has spent a lifetime teaching Jewish texts to Jewish students in Jewish settings, from youth groups to summer camps to...
Bella Lewensohn Schafer Recalls Her Service in War for Israeli Independence
In the 1840s, Moishe Zvi Lewensohn heard that the Messiah would soon come, and he moved to a small piece of land in the...