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Karen Schwartz

There was never a question whether bar and bat mitzvahs were going to continue, says Rabbi Marla Hornsten at Temple Israel, despite the havoc that had teachers and children evacuate the building.
“We have a lot of people who move to New York looking for Jewish community. They find us,” says Ezra Feig, founder of Nice Jewish Runners.
Fuzzy’s Pizza Katy in Texas is offering customers a limited-edition box and a commemorative USPS stamp to honor the legacy of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.
“We weren’t prepared,” he said. “We didn’t have gas. We had no food, no water—everything was closed, no electricity,” says Ido Sarfati, whose stories burned to the ground.
“What we will accomplish simply by marking the occasion to the degree that we are … we are showing we don’t forget, and that this was a very significant event,” says Rabbi Jonathan Glass. “Just because it’s 20 years later, it doesn’t become relegated to the dustbin of history.”
“I’ve marched for everyone else in the past two years, and now it’s time to be there for my people,” said Mindy Brittner. “It’s all interrelated.”
Stephanie Blumenkranz, the new director of the Hadassah Foundation, is fighting to improve the Jewish future for women and girls in Israel and America.