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Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk is managing editor of the U.S. bureau at JNS, with extensive experience in writing, content editing, copy editing and newsroom management. She has worked in newspaper and communications offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore; freelanced for more than 25 years; and contributed to magazines and books. She has won more than three dozen individual and team journalism awards on the U.S. state and national levels.

Uri Sivan is positioning the world-renowned university to meet 21st-century challenges in human health, energy, environmental sustainability, education and advanced manufacturing.
From its beginning in 1880 in Russia teaching Jewish farmers new technology following the Industrial Revolution, ORT has remained tuned in to changing economies.
The complex world of honey bees has correlations to Judaism, and not just at holiday time.
After grappling with an anti-Israel teacher-training course being offered in their school district, a group of Jewish students outside Chicago form a new club to demonstrate pride in their heritage.
To date, more than 50 college campuses throughout North America and abroad have replicated the Shabbat 1800 dinner model started by Binghamton University—running from Berkeley to Boston, and along the length of Canada; as well as in Argentina, Israel and the Netherlands—since its inception at BU in 1994.
The physical aspect requires working and feeling the land. The spiritual aspect involves understanding why the land is important for the future of the people and the country, says the new president of HaShomer HaChadash.
Israeli American Professor Daniel Chamovitz is set to take over where his predecessor, Professor Rivka Carmi, the first woman president of an Israeli university and there for 12 years, took off.
Hundreds of Jewish students attending Pittsburgh-area colleges face the aftermath of a violent attack that has put their city on the 24-hour news cycle.