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ARTICLES BY: Heather Robinson / JNS.org
Mayim Bialik Offers Some Much-Needed Laughs During a Not-So-Funny Time
JNS.org – From her role as the little girl with the big voice in the hit 1988 film “Beaches” to her star turns on TV...
Rabbis and Jewish Ethicists Encourage COVID-19 Vaccine Use
JNS.org - As the US government launched the largest vaccine distribution program in the country’s history, rabbis and Jewish ethicists were united in support of...
Rabbis and Jewish Ethicists Hail Vaccine for COVID-19, Encourage Its Use
JNS.org - This week, as the US government launched the largest vaccine distribution program in the country’s history, rabbis and Jewish ethicists were united in...
Jewish Veterans Face Aging and COVID as They Faced Wartime
JNS.org - When they were young, some stormed the beaches, taking the fight to the enemy; some liberated Nazi concentration camps in Western Europe and forever...
Honoring the Two-Year Anniversary of the Tree of Life Shooting by Strengthening Communal Bridges
JNS.org - Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, the religious leader of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha synagogue, and several other survivors of the mass shooting that cut...
A Survivor’s Reflection on the Second Anniversary of the Tree of Life Shooting
JNS.org - Judah Samet has been on the front lines of history more than once. A survivor of Bergen-Belsen and a former Israeli paratrooper, the...
As We Search for a COVID Vaccine, Remembering Past National Unity and the Legacy of Jonas Salk
JNS.org - Each year in the 1940s and ’50s, more than 15,000 Americans were paralyzed by polio and thousands died. The disease reached its peak...
Checking in on COVID-19 and Jewish Seniors
JNS.org - As America’s battle with the novel coronavirus has raged on, America’s Jewish community has suffered its share of losses, particularly early on when...
Battling Illness, Journalist Forges Ahead With Musical Tribute to Jewish Moms
JNS.org - Sometimes, even the most adult person just wishes their mom could make it stop hurting. And the desire to honor his late mother has...
One New York Family’s Story of Surviving Coronavirus
JNS.org - For Sarit Haviv, 53, of Mill Basin in Brooklyn, New York, the toughest part of having COVID-19 was seeing her beloved husband of...
A Holocaust Story of Leadership, Resilience and Survival
JNS.org - Mira Rosenblatt will never forget August 12, 1942. On that day, the teenager was among the 30,000 Jews living in the Sosnowiec Ghetto...
Sanders’s Snub of AIPAC, Slam of Israel’s Premier an Outrage for Many Conference Attendees
JNS.org - The general consensus at this year’s annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was that Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie...
Former Baghdad Parliamentarian Says Most Iraqis Support Soleimani Killing
JNS.org - Mithal al-Alusi, a former Iraqi parliamentarian, said in a phone interview this week that he supports Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Qassem Soleimani,...
After Monsey, It’s Time to Say Jewish Lives Also Matter
JNS.org - A horrific attack on the Jewish community in Monsey, NY took place on Saturday, the seventh night of Hanukkah, when a machete-wielding assailant...
