You Should Know… Hannah Wolfman-Arent

Some say it’s the sauce that makes or breaks a pizza. Others say it’s the cheese or toppings. But to Hannah Wolfman-Arent, it’s all...

Prepared and practicing patience with Hindy Bogner-Orenstein

Hindy Bogner-Orenstein has been a nurse for 37 years. But she’s never seen anything as dire as the COVID-19 units where she’s worked intermittently...
Lauren Katz

Competitive cooking with Lauren Katz

Cooking can be hard. Cooking in front of a televised national audience, even harder. “At home you might break an egg and it might get...
Ari Krasner

You Should Know… Ari Krasner

Friends and family call her “the spray paint lady.” Ari Krasner is a 35-year-old artist specializing in hyper-realistic spray paint portraits on canvas and...

You Should Know… Russell Nadel

Russell Nadel, a middle school music specialist and composer, did not always like music. It took a whole lot of Billy Joel and a...

The color of music with Dan Binstock

Name a tune and Dan Binstock can probably play it on his piano from memory. Binstock estimates he knows the melodies of maybe 10,000...

Pursuing justice with Dora Chen

By Leonard A. Robinson A lifelong pursuit of justice has led Dora Chen to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation’s second-largest union, where...
Arnie Hoffman in his workshop

Turning on the heat with Arnie Hoffman

  Arnie Hoffman made a career for himself as a master electrician. While he retired in 2014, his days in the workshop aren’t behind him....

You Should Know… Emmy Cohen

In May, Emmy Cohen will receive a graduate degree from Howard University in social work. Cohen, 25, is an intern at the National Low...

You Should Know… Dr. Marc Gruner

Sports doctor Marc Gruner, 36, trained at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and specializes in minimally invasive procedures and treatments to get patients...