By HEATHER ROBINSON
October 31 2007
If people from different backgrounds can find common ground, according to Daniel Lubetzky, it’s food - and the desire to prosper.
The founder of PeaceWorks, a food and condiment company, Lubetzky, 38, has promoted over the past decade …
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
October 3rd 2007
It’s Wednesday afternoon, and Shadin Hossain is surrounded by people. A friend named Joe runs in to ask if anyone wants coffee.
Alam, Hossain’s brother and his co-manager of Galleria - an art and framing store in Murray …
From the The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 4:00 AM
Even after Dr. Mehret Mandefro had repeatedly warned them to always use a condom, girls and women would return to her office with …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Tuesday, June 12th 2007
One night in 1995, the Rev. Paul …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 8:54 PM
An ordinary mortal can’t help but wonder how Dr. Philip Ozuah does …
From The New York Daily News
by HEATHER ROBINSON
April 11, 2007
During the early 1970s, Nina Weiner realized that if she were going to help Israeli Sephardim - Jews whose ancestors had immigrated to Israel from the Arab world, Asia and Africa - she would have to think …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Thursday, March 22nd 2007, 9:02 AM
When Bizu Riki Mullu was a girl, the people of her village of Mauri, in northern Ethiopia, would come out …
From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
September 18, 2006
The dwelling had no electricity, no windows, no heat and little furniture. Inside were a mother, six children and a crippled father. Garo Armen remembers using the light of a camera’s flash to catch glimpses of the family.
“It was like a …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Monday, June 5th, 2006
“When I lost my arm, I thought, ‘That’s the end of my life,’” says Muctar Jalloh.
“My goals had been to attend school and to write. Sometimes I would think, ‘I don’t think it is necessary for me to live.’ …
From The New York Daily News
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Anita J. Raizman will never forget the day when, on her way to work at Project Ore, a kosher food bank, she saw someone abusing a homeless woman.
“I was coming to work here, and there was a black …