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Women who reside in the Jack M. Satter House Hebrew SeniorLife residence in Revere, Mass., who modeled for the “Spectacular Seniors” 2025 calendar (project manager Rabbi Lior Nivo is sixth from left), are guests and VIPs on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” April 24, 2025. Photo by Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal.
‘Calendar girls’ yuk it up on ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show,’ receive honor from city mayor
“Whoever thought at 90, I’d be a pin-up girl?” said Loretta Paquet, a resident of the Jack Satter House in Revere, Mass.
Carin M. Smilk
June 5, 2025
“Spectacular Seniors” 2025 calendar created by the Jack Satter House Tenants Association in Revere, Mass. Photo by Marilia Lima.
These women bare all for a good cause
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.
Carin M. Smilk
Dec. 18, 2024
A family member visits an elderly resident at a senior facility run by the Jewish Association on Aging in Pittsburgh. Credit: Courtesy.
COVID-19 and the Jewish elderly: Report from Miami, Pittsburgh and New York
Nursing-home administrators keep up the battle against the coronavirus while they work to improve their in-house responses and close care of patients.
Heather Robinson
July 13, 2020
Moldaw Residences in Palo Alto, Calif. Source: Screenshot.
Inspired by Judaism, senior-center resident donates $200,000 to education fund
Stanley Chen’s contribution will support the new Moldaw Residences Employee Education Scholarship Program.
Dec. 17, 2019
From left: Bubbies S.J. Mendelson, Linda Rich and Bunny Gibson. Credit: JLTV.
Jewish ‘Bubbies’ do matchmaking, share their dating wisdom in new TV show
Three Jewish grandmothers star in a new dating show, where they put their matchmaking skills to the test for eligible bachelors and bachelorettes.
Shiryn Ghermezian
March 1, 2019
More than 600 volunteers from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews are spreading the joy of Hanukkah to hundreds of elderly people throughout Israel who live alone. Credit: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Bringing warmth to the lives of hundreds of older Israelis during Hanukkah
Over the course of this year, the Fellowship is assisting 100,000 elderly people and Holocaust survivors by giving them a monthly food supply, medical assistance, financial aid for heat and other forms of support.
Dec. 7, 2018
Margery B. Sterns (right), 96, a a longtime resident of San Francisco, lights the menorah with her daughter Sandra. Margery recalls her Russian immigrant parents lighting the menorah as one of her top memories of Hanukkah. Credit: Courtesy.
Menorahs, memories, magic: Hanukkah conjures up some startling senior moments
“We were allowed to eat many latkes and doughnuts with homemade preserves, spin dreidels my brother carved out of wood and play cards way past our bedtime . . . ”
Deborah Fineblum
Oct. 25, 2018
Senior citizens enjoy a meal for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, organized by the "Keren Leyedidut"(International Fellowship of Christians and Jews) organization, in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. April 10, 2014. Photo by Edi Israel/Flash90.
Israel Welfare ministry invites seniors, Holocaust survivors for free holiday hospitality
Elderly citizens who would otherwise be alone will be treated to a multi-day stay in Israel, where they will be housed, fed and treated to social activities tied to the holiday celebrations.
Aug. 30, 2018
New immigrants arrive in Israel on July 4, 2017, on a flight chartered by the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah agency. Credit: Shahar Azran/Nefesh B’Nefesh.
When immigrating to Israel is a senior moment
For some retirees, it can come down to choosing to spend their golden years overlooking the Mediterranean instead of a golf course in Boca Raton. For others, it’s a matter of following the kids—or more to the point, the grandkids—to Israel, or the fulfillment of a lifelong dream to live in the Jewish state.
Deborah Fineblum
Jan. 22, 2018