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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.

“This attempt to censor the arts and culture of Israel was not successful,” wrote the Israeli Film Festival in a statement.
“The Child Within Me,” a 90-minute documentary about Israeli musician Yehuda Poliker, will not be shown due to threats from protesters.
Sixth-graders at a Jewish day school outside Philadelphia get a real-time lesson in experiential learning.
“Antisemitism is always and forever, but this has been a wake-up call,” says Gladys Fink Senderowitsch, the owner of Nana’s Kitchen & Catering.
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller has called for the city to “stand together to condemn antisemitism, and acts of hate and violence against anyone.”
“Their messaging tends to become a way to get other people to hate Jews,” said Michael Beim, president of JNF’s board of directors in Orlando, Fla.
All of a sudden, the airport came into view. I almost wanted the cab ride to last a little longer.
“It’s not about what you do but why you are doing it. You are there to relieve a soldier or army personnel,” says Camilla Mass of Rochester, N.Y.