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The Mensch List: Raising ovarian cancer awareness
Often, when someone is coping with an extraordinary loss, the feelings can be all-encompassing. When Paulinda Schimmel Babbini’s daughter, Robin, died of ovarian cancer at the age of 20, instead of letting the tragic death immobilize her, Babbini made it her mission that no one else should go through what she had.
Synagogue movements team to raise awareness on Iran
Synagogue movements from across the denominational spectrum are jointly calling on American Jews to \”make Iran a matter of the highest priority.”
Darfur becomes part of Israeli vocabulary
\”In general people from the West are in a special position to do something very positive for Israel,\” Berrin said. \”We can import some of our positive values and awareness. In this case, we want the average Israeli to know what\’s going on in Darfur and to care about it.\”
Reality radio goes kosher
\”In religious communities, especially the Charedi communities, people don\’t have televisions at home. Whereas a secular person comes home after work and turns on the TV to watch news, a religious person comes home and turns on the radio,\” said Ido Lebovitz, CEO of Radio Kol Chai.
Teaching our kids how to give
Giving tzedakah is one way to achieve tikkun olam, or the Jewish obligation to repair what is broken and lacking in the world. Both affirm our responsibility to give a part of what we have to take care of others who are less fortunate. We do this because Judaism views individual wealth as neither a right nor a privilege but a form of stewardship for which we are charged to care for the world.
Awareness Center and other blogs draw praise and scorn
There is no unabridged database of rabbinic sexual abusers. But there is the Awareness Center. It\’s not a physical place, but a Baltimore post office box, cellphone number and Web site.
How one Boston synagogue met the challenge of the cantor’s sexual abuse
As an attorney representing several victims of sexually predatory Catholic priests, Mark Itzkowitz has witnessed the church\’s pedophilia scandal from an almost too-close-for-comfort vantage point. Not long ago, Itzkowitz\’s life took a surreal turn when he found himself confronting clergy sexual abuse from a different perspective: The problem had come home to roost in his own synagogue.
Run for Her: A new generation of awareness
You might think that getting up at 5 a.m. on a Sunday in November would be an impossible feat for a teenager, but when I arrived to volunteer at the second annual Run for Her 5K/3K Friendship Walk/Run for ovarian cancer awareness and research, I was surprised by the number of kids who came out for such a wonderful cause.
Rebecca Levinson: Born to Be a Volunteer
Rebecca Levinson grew up always doing things for the community.
\”This is what you do,\” the 17-year-old junior at North Hollywood\’s Oakwood School, said matter of factly.