
From JTNews
by HEATHER ROBINSON

In advance of her November 4 performance at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater, the indefatigable Joan Rivers made time to speak with JTNews about her two TV shows, memories of her Jewish grandmothers, and how to stay forever young at heart.
JTNews: Hi Joan! Last …
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From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON

Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary, is coming to speak June 12 as part of an effort by the Republican Jewish Coalition to ramp up its outreach in New Jersey in advance of the 2012 election …
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From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON

From using “Jewish guilt” to interrogate criminals to reporting to the New York Police Department from the scene of suicide bombings in Israel, Mordechai Dzikansky’s career has been unique.
“You have to be unconventional and you have to take risks …
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From The Jewish Standard
by HEATHER ROBINSON
This week, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, the United States assassinated the terrorist Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans, including 700 from New Jersey. Notable for his extreme brutality toward …
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From Big Peace
by HEATHER ROBINSON
On Sunday, January 9th, 2011, the people of Southern Sudan – Christians and animists, or practitioners of native faiths – will have the chance to vote to form an independent nation. The election was stipulated in a 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement brought by the Bush Administration …
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From Big Peace
by HEATHER ROBINSON

Note: On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation. In a prior interview …
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From Big Peace
by HEATHER ROBINSON

On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation.
Since the 1950’s, war has raged …
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From Center For Security Policy
by HEATHER ROBINSON

As a child, American human rights activist Simon Deng survived brutal enslavement by Islamists and witnessed their destruction of his village in Sudan.
Today, at 50, Deng is an American citizen and one of the leading advocates for the rights of his people, …
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From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON

Her autobiography is titled “From Russia With Luck,” but it was more than luck that landed Dr. Zoya Schmuter her job as a forensic pathologist for the New York City medical examiner’s office.
Schmuter, who at 71 still has sparkling …
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From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON

When his children were small, they would ask Roman Kent to tell them stories about his boyhood.
A Holocaust survivor, Kent told them happy stories about his family - his brother, two sisters, himself and their parents - …
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