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Bill Motchan

Bill Motchan is a freelance writer and photographer.

The 33-year-old will be among the competitors vying for the top title at the national Pickleball World Championships beginning in Dallas.
As a child, Lori Golding Zontini didn’t always have food on the table. She now works to make sure other families do.
“Now, funds go to Jewish Family Services, the kosher-food pantry, the Jewish day school, youth organizations, synagogue programs and college scholarships,” Dennis Feinberg, president of the Hebrew Orphans Society, tells JNS.
“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.