The art of living with brain cancer
Jewish Journal
December 23, 2010
When Judi Kaufman was diagnosed with brain cancer in 1997, she was told she had five years left to live.
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The Mensch List
Israeli scouting just got hipper
Dikla Kadosh
December 23, 2010
By nature, Eli Fitlovitz prefers to stay in the background. The kibbutz-raised Israeli, who came to Los Angeles in 1982, has wise eyes, an endearing smile and a quiet confidence. A commercial real estate broker, he and his wife are now raising three teenagers. What finally forced Fitlovitz out of his life-long safety zone were his kids, and not in the way most teens make their parents uncomfortable.
Foster kids’ angel of light
Jewish Journal
December 23, 2010
As a child, Lauri Burns thought God was punishing her for something horrible she had done in a past life. How else could she explain the years of beatings by her father that began when she was just 5 years old, or the mental abuse that left her suicidal by her bat mitzvah and led her to drug addiction and prostitution on the streets of Santa Ana?
Teen’s focus on Congo begins at home
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
December 23, 2010
David Taylor doesn’t see the point in getting emotional about the evils across the globe.
From grief, a dream realized
Danielle Berrin
December 23, 2010
Gabriella Axelrad, a luminous 13-year-old with a striking smile, had been on the final stretch of a family bike ride in Grand Teton National Park when a white van appeared out of nowhere and knocked the last breath out of her lithe dancer’s body.
Don’t call him super-rav
Jonah Lowenfeld
December 23, 2010
“Is Rabbi T a crime-fighting rabbi?” That’s what a student asked Pressman Academy Rav Beit Sefer (head school rabbi) Chaim Tureff at a recent question-and-answer session.
Mom, the full-time mensch
Orit Arfa
December 23, 2010
“Is everybody happy today?” Shana Passman cheerfully asked a table of Holocaust survivors eating lunch at Hollywood Temple Beth El at the annual Chanukah party of Café Europa, a social club for Holocaust Survivors run by the Jewish Family Service (JFS).
Filmmaker puts JCorps in spotlight
Orit Arfa
December 23, 2010
In 2008, Adam Irving, a filmmaker and photographer, left his doctoral program in media studies at the University of Texas to make the transition from theory to practice. He landed in Hollywood with the dream of making films, but soon after his arrival found himself feeling unfulfilled by the vanity within the entertainment industry.
Beauty Bus delivers much-needed pampering
Jewish Journal
December 23, 2010
When Melissa Marantz Nealy died in 2005, her close-knit family was devastated. At 28, Nealy had been diagnosed only a year earlier with a neurodegenerative muscular disorder.
The Mensch List 2010
JewishJournal.com
December 22, 2010
This fall, we again put out our call for nominations for our annual list of mensches, and you responded with your usual outpouring of suggestions of amazing people. We face this enormous response only to wonder, once more, how do you choose between a 13-year-old who rallied his entire school to help victims in the Congo and a Holocaust survivor who spends 800 hours a year volunteering at the Simon Wiesenthal Center? (And those are just two who made the cut.)
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