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February 14, 2002

Youth Reinforcement

Russell Radwin came from Alabama to meet people, because there are so few Jews in Birmingham.

Changing Course

In an assembly hall at a Burbank middle school, a Holocaust survivor answers questions from her young audience. The inquiries are thoughtful, and the children serious, some even close to tears.

An ‘Embrace’ to Remember

Sixty members of Young Israel of Century City gingerly walked on the muddy path and crowded into Dalia Har Sinai\’s little farmhouse in the southern Hebron Hills community of Susia.

Survivor: Malibu

Forget the South Pacific, the Australian Outback and Africa — if you want to see a real survivor, look no further than in your own backyard.

Call Me Crazy

When I tell people that my job is to recruit students for long-term programs and encourage young adults to spend time in Israel, the response is usually, \”Go to Israel now? Are you crazy?

Literary Comfort

Sept. 11 marked a resurgence in America\’s love affair with the news media. Desperate to make sense of the tragedy, we made CNN and MSNBC staples of our TV diet.

‘Trembling’ Truth

For filmmaker Sandi Simcha DuBowski, \”Trembling Before G-d\” isn\’t just a documentary, it\’s a revolutionary movement.

Struma Story Surfaces

On Dec. 12, 1941, 769 desperate Romanian Jews crammed into a rusty bucket of a ship, the Struma, at the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta. They had sold their last possessions to escape war-torn Europe in hopes of making it to Palestine.

Painting California

Artist Stephanie Sanchez (née Sternberger) discovered what her Jewish background meant when her classmates in her first-grade class in Baltimore told her that she had killed Christ.

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