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October 3, 2013

Raheel Raza’s Jihad

If the religion of Islam ever succeeds in eradicating its extremist and violent elements, it will be because of devout Muslim women like Raheel Raza, a long-time human rights activist from Pakistan.

Companions on a lonely journey to recovery

When Susan Kapadia was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009, she felt alone and depressed. Then she found the Breast Cancer Resource Center (BCRC) in Santa Barbara and started — bit by bit — to emotionally recover from it.

Obituaries: October 4-10

Kurt Bachrach died Aug. 15 at 100. Survived by sons Gary (Marisse), Kenneth (Ruth Ann); 4 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Survivor: Hadasa Cytrynowicz

“Don’t speak, don’t cry. The Germans will hear us, and they will kill us.” Four-year-old Hadasa Cytrynowicz — then Dasha Eisenberg — silently clung to her mother, wrapped in the goose down comforter they had brought with them from Konskie, Poland, to a hut near the Bug River, northeast of Warsaw. Hadasa was frightened.

Steven Spielberg’s DJ kids

This might come as incredibly shocking news, but it appears — get ready for this — that Steven Spielberg’s kids are talented. Wonder where they get it from?

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