Lolle Boettcher keeps memories alive, memories of tragedy and memories of triumph, memories that some may wish to forget and that others insist be examined in the hope that genocide end once and for all on this planet.Boettcher - who is a Presbyterian...
Ben Senturia has spent the past 30 years working on environmental, social justice and campaign reform issues at the local, state and national levels. He also has been a presence in the peace movement and interfaith organizations."I love interacting with...
The word "learning" comes up a lot in conversations with Dr. Harry Offenbach. The word "teaching" does, too. That's because he does a lot of both."I've been teaching Judaism ever since my bar mitzvah," said Offenbach sitting quietly in the University...
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of area schoolchildren have walked past the "The Flame," a picture-filled art quilt that hangs at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. A memorial to the victims of World War II, the quilt was designed by the...
Where there's trouble - there's Carl Moskowitz.A member of Creve Coeur's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a disaster assistance employee with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and a member of the American Red Cross Disaster Action...
Sarijane Freiman never set out to be a social activist. In fact, she grew up at a time when "young ladies were supposed to marry well, make children, join Hadassah and work for (the temple) Sisterhood." Freiman did all those things. But it was as a mother,...
Elizabeth Slonim Macanufo
• Published June 2, 2010
Growing up in Bethlehem, Penn., Dan Glazier observed his parents regularly practice tzedakah. His mother, a social worker, and his father, a dentist, made giving to others a priority. Glazier remembers his father's dental practice was "in some ways like...
There is no such thing as a short conversation with Margaret Gillerman. That's because Gillerman remembers everything about everybody she's ever met and likes to recall one or two or 14 of these fond memories when she meets up with them.She could well...
A schoolteacher for more than 44 years, a woman who has served as an officer and on boards for organizations at the local, regional and national levels, a compassionate person who has worked with new Americans, a focused individual who has successfully...
It's only fitting that we sing the praises of our Unsung Hero, Leslie Caplan. Anyone who has ever had the privilege of hearing Caplan in action knows firsthand the depth and clarity of her sumptuous soprano. Her talent is rare, but what is even rarer...
Dotty Pressman Tepper's 20 years of volunteer tutoring has put kids back on track academically, built up their confidence and self-esteem, brightened their futures - and at the same time, expanded her family.Tepper works with students at the Hosea House...
It is difficult to imagine a group that better exemplifies being truly "Unsung" than the Ahavas Chesed Society. Volunteers prepare the dead for burial according to Jewish law - receiving neither compensation, nor commendation from those they serve.Pnina...
