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Bill Motchan

Bill Motchan is a freelance writer and photographer.

“The money we raise might go to represent somebody that lost their farm. We are helping them maintain their kibbutz,” Jewish harmonica player Mickey Raphael, 74, tells JNS.
Amy Milligan, director of the ODU Hillel, runs an Am Yisrael Chai Café for students to gather and gab about campus life, something perhaps more significant post-Oct. 7.
Jewish “Super Girls” take to the water and the weather.
One man’s quest for the perfect bagel (or any at all) in his new home, miles from the Midwest.
“I just like building things,” said the semi-retired, 70-year-old, St. Louis resident, and figuring out “how does this go together, and what kind of detail do I need for that?”
“Have you ever seen oil and water mixed into an emulsion? Lindsey and I are an emulsion,” says Shel Chesky of his 40-year-old daughter/business partner.
“I just felt that this was my calling,” says 18-year-old Yael Sabin.
The 18-year-old will be the youngest member of the U.S. men’s basketball team competing in Israel this summer at the 2025 Maccabi Games.
Frank Yawitz crashed with his crew in England aboard a U.S. Army twin-engine B-26 bomber 11 months before the end of World War II.
A group of nine teenagers from a St. Louis day school in grades five through eight advanced to an elite robotics competition.
Oskar Jacob, 94, will sit alongside the granddaughter of one of the designers of the V-1 bomb and discuss their shared history at an event in St. Louis.
A Jewish immigrant from Poland, she was an excellent cook, a savvy entrepreneur and a philanthropist who supported Jewish organizations.