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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.

PBS will air “How Saba Kept Singing,” a documentary on the familial and musical relationship between Polish Holocaust survivor David Wisnia and his grandson, Avi.
“People said that I’m a dreamer,” said the Israeli statesman, who lived to 93. “It’s true. But ask me this: What’s wrong? Who said people who don’t dream are right?”
“I have learned that even if something, including me, is broken, it can be repaired, and although it may have scars, it can still be useful and beautiful—‘perfectly imperfect,’ ” says Chaya Esther Ort of Kiyor Studio in Jerusalem.
Wishing all good health, a sense of normalcy, and for many, a peaceful 5781!
They are the chess pieces in our lives; we couldn’t move without them.
We’re all different after this three-month, newly masked experience—hopefully, for the better.
A rabbi on the global coronavirus pandemic, the holiday of Shavuot, the sacred cycle of the Jewish calendar and a core (at least one) truth.
Take that, Wonder Woman. You may have a magic lasso, but I am a magician.