Lauren Spierer, a sophomore at Indiana University, remains missing a week after disappearing on her way home from a sports bar. Spierer’s case was featured June 11 on Fox’s “America’s Most Wanted.”
Police, family and friends are searching for Lauren Spierer, a sophomore at Indiana University who is missing. Spierer, 20, who is Jewish, has been missing since early on the morning of June 3, the Indiana Daily Student reported.\n
Up to four Israelis who were in Christchurch, New Zealand at the time remain missing and are feared dead. On Wednesday, Israel\’s consul to New Zealand, Teddy Poplinger, said that his staff is working to contact all Israelis who were reported to be in the area of the quake when it struck on Tuesday.
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In his raw, autobiographical monologue, \”Who Is Floyd Stearn?\” actor Michael Raynor struts onstage with a swagger reminiscent of James Caan. Raynor, playing himself, jabs a finger at a faded photograph.\nThe photo was taken on 185th Street in Queens, on his grandmother\’s lawn. In the photo, an athletic, brawny man embraces a 3-year-old. The man is Raynor\’s father, Floyd Stearn. The smiling boy is young Michael, who clutches a toy banjo, his blond bangs peeking out from a cowboy hat.\n\nRaynor tells the audience that, even at 40, he cannot discuss the photo; should anyone pressure him, he angrily departs.\n\n\”Every time I see the picture I cry,\” he adds quietly. \”That\’s why I can\’t look at it. I see the happiness in my face, and it scares me. I\’m hoping it won\’t go away.\”
For Rena, missing weeks of dance rehearsal was unthinkable, but so was missing out on the quintessential Jewish youth experience of summer camp.
This summer, Rena hopes to have that conflict resolved for her for at least two weeks when she attends T\’hila, a new program at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in Simi Valley that integrates a Jewish camping experience with an arts experience molded for young, talented artists who are as serious about their craft as Rena.
At least once a week, we hear reports of missing children. Some are found alive and others, tragically, dead.
Every morning as Rabbi Samuel Graudenz prays, he asks for the safe return of Chandra Ann Levy.
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