By Jessica Leader, JTA
• Published February 7, 2012
NEW YORK -- This wasn’t your typical bat mitzvah. It took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, a majority Muslim country with an Jewish community that is thought to number in the double digits. The bat mitzvah, Mei Lin Kallman, spent part of her Hebrew school...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 18, 2011
Melanie Paticoff hears perfectly, but she is devoting her life to helping those who cannot and to educating the rest of us about hearing loss.Paticoff is just 21, but the Clayton resident has written an award-winning children's book about hearing loss,...
