On a recent morning, Lexie Dreyfuss, an 18-year-old senior at La Cañada High School, was sitting at the La Cañada Flintridge Country Club with Palani, her 20-month-old black Labrador obediently in tow.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day,” Maimonides wrote. “Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
The longer I live in America, the more fascinated I become with the story of American Jewry — how a wandering and persecuted people discovered a free and open nation and have given so much back.
Rachel Sumekh remembers the moment when every expectation she had for herself as a “typical Persian girl,” as she put it, changed.
Steven Sunshine, 55, has had his share of hardships, including undergoing a bone marrow transplant in 2006. When Sunshine’s sister was found to be a donor match, providing him with the needed marrow, he was acutely aware that not everybody is so fortunate.
Eleven years ago, environmental attorney Albert “Albie” Cohen was representing about 200 people in a lawsuit, and after resolving the case and making all of the distributions, he had about $10,000 remaining.
Sarah Shapiro’s life as an entrepreneur and philanthropist started when she was 8 1/2 years old.
Improving rights within the disabled community isn’t just a battle; it’s an out-and-out war, and activist Judy Mark is on the front lines.
During a visit to a Burbank middle school some five years ago, Janet Diel simply couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
For our 11th annual mensch list, we once again invited your nominations of extraordinary volunteers in our community, and again the outpouring of suggestions of amazing people was overwhelming.
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