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Lifecycles
Deferred dream comes true for actress Nan Tepper
Tom Tugend
August 7, 2008
\”I had been a student, wife, mother, news executive and caregiver, but I had always promised myself that one day I would be an actor.\”
Geriatric love, (I.B.) Singer style
Tom Tugend
July 23, 2008
To Max\’s surprise and delight, the bereaved widow proves quite amorous, insisting, as do his other female companions, that a man is never too old for some active love-making
The emotional landmines of family caregiving
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2008
A painful situation for the primary caregiver occurs when another close relative does little or nothing to help, but they are adored and praised by the senior anyway.
Falling dollar hurts seniors in former Soviet Union
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2008
After his wife died, the worker still came but less often, until global economic pressure forced the JDC to scale back operations for the \”least needy\” in the former Soviet Union. Six months ago, Zheleznyak began having to fend for himself.
Memoir recalls educator’s hardships, success in Iran
Karmel Melamed
June 19, 2008
Treating him like a rock star, the crowd mobbed 70-something Eshaghian, seeking an autograph or photo op during the May 20 launch party for his Persian-language memoir, \”A Follower of Culture.\”
One more time around
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
June 12, 2008
Finding love a second or third time is not always so effortless, but 52 percent of men and 43.5 percent of women remarried in 2004, according to a 2007 U.S. census bureau report. And Jews are no exception.
Shoah survivors ‘graduate’ from New Jew
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
June 5, 2008
New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS) awarded eight Holocaust survivors honorary high school diplomas last Wednesday night, symbolically handing them back a part of their adolescence that had been stolen by the war
AUDIO: Iranian American Jews — New mentoring program grooms tomorrow’s leaders
Karmel Melamed
March 26, 2008
Young Iranian American Jewish professionals discuss their involvement with a new mentoring program for teenagers in the community.
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