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the mensch list
The Mensch List 2014
Jewish Journal
December 30, 2014
Last month, for our 10th annual mensch list, we invited your nominations of extraordinary volunteers in our community, and once again the outpouring of suggestions of amazing people was overwhelming.
The Mensch List 2013
Jewish Journal
January 2, 2014
Last month, for our eighth-annual mensch list, we again invited all of you to submit your nominations of extraordinary volunteers, and again the outpouring of suggestions of amazing people was overwhelming.
The Mensch List: A passion for helping struggling Iranian-Americans
Karmel Melamed
January 2, 2014
Two years ago Elena J., a middle-aged, impoverished Iranian-Jewish woman in Los Angeles, was stricken with a rare illness that forced surgeons to amputate one of her legs.
The Mensch List: Person of the Book
Jared Sichel
January 2, 2014
Armin Szatmary takes his membership in the “People of the Book” very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that once per week, for 15 years, the 73-year-old retired salesman has set aside time to help illiterate kids in Los Angeles’ public schools learn to read.
The Mensch List: The way home
Naomi Pfefferman
January 2, 2014
Wendy Colman Levin spoke with quiet intensity about the people who have touched her during her four-and-a-half years as an advocate on behalf of the homeless, among them the young woman who was thrown out of her childhood home when she told her stepfather that her stepbrothers were raping her, and the middle-aged man who spiraled into street life after his wife died of cancer.
The Mensch List 2012
Jewish Journal
January 3, 2013
Last month, for our seventh-annual mensch list, we again invited all of you to submit your nominations of extraordinary volunteers, and again the outpouring of suggestions of amazing people was overwhelming.
The Mensch List: Raising ovarian cancer awareness
Jewish Journal
January 3, 2013
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.
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