Pardes wanted to feed the hungry. She chose to support the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry because her family believes in its mission. Daughter of Rhona Lyons and David Warren of Olivette, Pardes’s bat mitzvah just happened to fall on March 17th,...
Taylor has always felt a need to help those who are less fortunate and especially those who are suffering from an illness. Son of Leisa Zigman and Michael Edlin of Clayton, his mitzvah project was volunteering at Food Outreach. Founded in 1988, Food Outreach...
The goal of Adina’s mitzvah project was to find a way to bring people together, enjoy one another, and benefit the community. So on June 3, at the Creve Coeur Golf Course, the Adina Barg Community Golf Invitational Tournament was born. Daughter of...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published September 19, 2012
Jan Nykin considers the Para-Rabbinic certification she earned last summer as her fifth career, “the one that ties all my work together.” She has worked in special education, teaching at a psychiatric hospital. She had a learning-disability-tutoring...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 15, 2012
Microsurgery certainly can be challenging — but Dr. Martin Boyer contends that tending to the organic garden in his backyard in 107-degree weather also is difficult. “I’ve managed to keep it watered, keep it going,” said Boyer, 48. “I have...
Ethan loves playing hockey and he wanted to share his love of this sport with those less able. Son of Rochelle and Randy Aaranson of Chesterfield, Ethan volunteered with the Disabled Athlete Sports Association (DASA) for his mitzvah project. In particular,...
An avid reader, Jeremy wanted to share his passion of books with young children. For his mitzvah project, he chose to support Ready Readers, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring preschool children from low-income communities to become...
WASHINGTON -- Solomon Krishef was thrilled to learn that this summer he could go to his Jewish sleepaway camp for eight weeks -- twice as long as the previous four summers. It was not to be for the Michigan teenager. Ultimately the blind almost 16-year-old...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 18, 2012
An early diagnosis of type 1 diabetes and a Jewish upbringing in New York that emphasized education, activism, volunteerism and making positive social changes brought Wendy Auslander to her career in social work and research. “Those forces, all way...
By Elisa Spungen Bildner, JTA
• Published July 5, 2012
MONTCLAIR, N.J. — When I was growing up in the 1960s in Skokie, Ill., reading was the main sport in my family. I’m pretty sure it was also the main sport in most families in my predominantly Jewish neighborhood: Neither my friends nor I ever heard...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 20, 2012
In May, Dr. William A. Peck was presented with the William Greenleaf Eliot Society’s Search Award at the organization’s 45th annual dinner. Peck, a professor of medicine and director of the Center for Health Policy at Washington University, was honored...
Shirley Gelman, Congregation B’nai Amoona Shirley Gelman loves to dance. So what better way to share her love of dance then to invite her friends and family to her first Dancers Against Childhood Cancer Dance-a-Thon? Daughter of Mercedes and Miguel...
