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"Not interested in working for a Jew." That's what a Cornell student wrote back to Gabe Einhorn's company, two weeks after applying for a summer internship. Gabe, 24, wears a kippah proudly in every video he posts online. He never expected hatred like this to find him. Gabe and his brother Aiden started a company […]
Human Interest
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She was five weeks old when her parents fled their bombed-out village in North Vietnam. By six, she was on a plane to Israel. By twenty, she was a radar spotter on the Lebanese border, watching for Hezbollah. Today, Ai Lien Luong Phung owns four kosher restaurants in South Florida. This is her unusual story. […]
In 1984, an American doctor touring Algeria stumbled across something he never expected to find in the middle of the Sahara Desert: a synagogue. Dr. Ronald Nagel, a hematologist, was on a scientific research trip when his hosts recommended he spend the weekend in the town of Ghardaia. "You cannot imagine how beautiful the place […]
Charlotte Herzberg, an 8-year-old girl in Monsey, New York, was riding her bicycle when she was hit by a car and killed. The driver of the car was not texting, drunk, nor speeding. He was a respected member of the local Orthodox Jewish community and a dedicated volunteer for the Hatzalah emergency medical service. He […]
The five tragedies that happened on this day.
