Graphing the game with David Appelman
On a typical day David Appelman wakes around 4:30 a.m., the time when FanGraphs updates. The website hosts statistical analysis, graphs and projections for...
You Should Know… Talia Garber
Talia Garber’s friends call her the human IMDb — the internet movie database. A movie enthusiast, she has been to film school, worked as...
Making trash bloom with Sari Carp
The Shenandoah County Landfill is a dump, quite literally. But where some see trash, Sari Carp saw opportunity.
Carp, 48, is executive director of Sustainability...
Making the city bloom
Volunteers from the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center and Jewish Federation of Greater Washington on April 15 till the soil at the GroW Community...
Ori Bachner won’t let herself forget her saba’s ordeal
As a young child in Israel, Ori Bachner didn’t fully grasp what being a Holocaust survivor meant. But she grew to understand the darkness...
Counting the Omer with Mishka Jaeger
Creating a tarot card deck had long been on graphic designer Mishka Jaeger’s bucket list.
“I always wanted to illustrate a tarot card deck. I...
You Should Know… Rachel Finston
Rachel Finston is outraged by anti-Semitism and annoyed by the misrepresentation of Jews in the media and in literature. In response, she created a...
You Should Know… Gabriel Scheinmann (left)
Gabriel Scheinmann is executive director of the Washington-based Alexander Hamilton Society, which operates on 50 college campuses to help students get into the foreign...
The chips fall where they may with Sarah Cohen
"If somebody had told me when I was 18 that I would be making potato chips and living in the Shenandoah Valley, I would...
The good deeds of Dr. Stuart Lessans
In the Washington area, the annual Good Deeds Day of community service is itself the product of a good deed. Stuart Lessans, a retired...