Seniors spend quarantine putting memories on paper
During quarantine, people have had a lot more free time, and a lot more time to think.
Some members of Congregation Beth El of Montgomery...
Natalie K. Levant brings the laughs at 88
By Eric Schucht
PHILADELPHIA — She’s the silver vixen of the stand-up — the comedic grandmother audiences wished they had.
“They used to say mother,” Natalie...
Love doesn’t self-quarantine for Arlington woman’s 98th birthday
By Kayla Steinberg
There was no skimping on Erika Robinson’s 98th birthday. Calls poured in from her adoring children, grandchildren and friends as Robinson noshed...
As emergencies grow for Holocaust survivors amid pandemic, helpers try to keep up
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By Larry Luxnor
Louis was barely 2 years old in September 1939 when Nazi troops stormed into his Polish village near Krakow, rounded up...
She survived the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and COVID-19
By Ben Harris
After Marilee Shapiro Asher was admitted to the hospital in mid-April sick with COVID-19, her daughter got a call from the doctor...
Social distancing makes seniors vulnerable to abuse, Jewish groups say
The older woman on the phone was distraught.
Cut off from her children by COVID-19, neglected by her husband and without computer access, she was...
Pushing 80, Mike Tabor is still pushing himself and the causes he believes in
On the crumpled sheet of paper, a grayscale Mike Tabor looks away from the camera with
a grimace. Through the graininess of the tiny photograph...
Social justice is in David Fishback’s DNA
By Selma Khenissi
David Fishback has a dream. Everywhere he goes, he carries with him a vision of an America where everyone feels safe.
“Only when...
Mollee Kruger’s memoir is the reflection of a 20th-century woman
By Sonia Owchariw
Poet and essayist Mollee Kruger will be celebrating her 91st birthday on March 28. Mollee, named after her Aunt Molly, is known...
What kind of elder will you be?
By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
When my grandparents retired to Florida full time, they did not join a synagogue. Active and committed Jews for their entire...
