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Heather Robinson

Lee Hendelman, a copywriter from Queens, N.Y., said that while he initially worried about “losing time” to dating as COVID-19 raged on, he has gotten in better shape, saved money and enjoyed his own company.
The star of “Blossom” and “The Big Bang Theory” (and now single mother of two) appears in a new weekly sitcom, “Call Me Kat.”
There’s no higher value in Judaism than protecting life itself, they say. Yet more than one poll has reported conflicting views about the public agreeing to get the vaccine, both in America and Israel.
Home to as many as 450,000 Jews, in many ways it is similar to Michigan, Wisconsin and even Georgia when it comes to the politics that led to it being so contested this election season.
David Hymes, 103, of Chicago, a veteran of World War II, retired public accountant and former national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, offers his “old geezer” advice: “Live right, eat a balanced diet, try to help, keep up with current events,” and above all, “do not hide.”
The 97-year-old speaks about his career, his wife, how to fend off naysayers and about the imprint that Holocaust survivors have had on his psyche and his service for others.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers has led a movement to discourage vitriolic, menacing speech online—what he terms “H speech”—that he views as having been a contributing factor in the atrocity.
Andrea Wedner, who lost her mother in the 2018 shooting, focuses on the future and what she can do to help heal the Pittsburgh Jewish community.