Josh knows that music is good for the soul. Therefore, he wanted to share his love of music with the kids at Camp Rainbow, a sleepover camp for children with cancer, by collecting and donating new or gently used musical instruments. "I wanted to be able...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 16, 2011
By the time she was 13, Helen R. Friedman already knew she wanted to be a psychologist. "I always observed how relationships work, and also had compassion without judgment," says the native of Rome, N.Y. "When I was a senior in high school, my best subjects...
The St. Patrick Center and Sunshine Mission homeless were kept a bit warmer last winter thanks to Azeyah and his family. Azeyah loves to help people and he wanted to make a difference in at least a few of their lives.Son of Bilgah Israel of Florissant,...
The Agapé Academy and Child Development Center in University City had the good fortune of having Samantha read to their four-and five-year-old children. Through the Ready Readers program, Samantha was able to share her passion for reading and dedicated...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published October 19, 2011
If you predicted that this article would be about medical research, good for you. But could you have guessed that the subject plays in a saxophone quartet made up of all psychologists? Probably not - because you couldn't know that with the clues you had.Jeff...
Sammy Elfanbaum, Jeremy Schwartz, & Maddie LappCongregation B'nai Amoona Friends since they attended preschool together, Sammy, Jeremy and Maddie had all volunteered, at one time or another at the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry. There they learned...
Mark Rodgers Central Reform Congregation Mark ran into his old swim teacher, Sarah Marx, at services one Shabbat morning. Marx, of Super Swimmers Academy, remembered what a great kid Mark was and asked him to be her assistant in a special needs class....
By SUSAN FADEM, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published September 28, 2011
The unthinkable happened to St. Louisan Ron Rubin. Now, irony and coincidence have made him an international hero. In the final days of training for his eighth marathon two years ago, Rubin went into sudden cardiac arrest, not far from his business headquarters...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published September 21, 2011
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Many people already are aware that ovarian cancer is difficult to detect early, and many know that the disease is more prevalent in Jewish women of Ashkenazic descent.However, few people are aware that ovarian...
Zoe TesserTraditional Congregation Zoe wanted to work with the elderly. She used to visit her great-grandmother in Florida and loved the times she spent with her. Great-Grandma Beatrice lived to be 100 years old and was in an assisted living center for...
Kasey RuppUnited HebrewFew people like going door-to-door asking for money, but if that's what it was going to take to help a little boy with special needs, then Kasey was not going to be deterred.For about a month, Kasey knocked on neighbor's doors and...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 17, 2011
Missouri is now one of 23 states with laws designed to improve education about cord blood stem cells - potentially life-enhancing cells harvested from the umbilical cords of newborns - and about the options for preserving them.Currently, three out of...
