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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.

“Do not be indifferent,” he was known to say, as he advocated for education, Holocaust survivors and Righteous Gentiles.
Tu B’Shevat has been included in the “Glorious Redwoods Forest” wall calendar for years—at least since 2018, the organization’s centennial.
It’s their cause, really. “We strive to do a lot of good things for the building—lectures, ice-cream socials, concerts, trips to theaters. But it costs a lot of money,” says Roxanne Aiello, 80, of Revere, Mass.
Through text and images, “we can celebrate our story, the Jewish story,” said Nikki Schreiber. “We can give people a little flavor of our lives.”
Magen David Adom is made up of “selfless, generous, heroic brave people who literally put their lives on the line to save others,” Emily Austin, emcee of an event for supporters in Philadelphia, told JNS.
Optics can be powerful. They can be transformative. And often very deceiving.
There’s some fiction, some truth” to the text, says Alfred Benjamin of Massachusetts. “I never expected to bring it to life, but I wanted to relay some information about the war.”
“365 Days of Hope” drew several hundred attendees, many donning “Bring Them Home Now” T-shirts and yellow ribbons, and holding small balloons with the faces of the hostages and the fallen on them.