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is senior editor at 70 Faces Media. She is JTA's former managing editor. Follow her on Twitter @gabibirkner.

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• Separated by the Holocaust, old friends find each other 76 years later

  April 13, 2018 1:15pm

  LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When Alice (Gerstel) Weit last saw Simon Gronowski, she was 13 and he was 10 and, by Alice’s recollection, “the most adorable boy ever.” When they reunited this week, 76 years later, “I opened the door and there he was, a frail, little old man,” she said. At the threshold of Alice’s…

• Marvin Hier says he’s ‘proud’ to be Trump’s inauguration rabbi

  January 5, 2017 5:06pm

  LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Rabbi Marvin Hier has known Charles and Seryl Kushner — Jared Kushner’s parents and Donald Trump’s in-laws — for decades. The Hiers and the Kushners have gone to the same kosher for Passover resort, the Arizona Biltmore, over the years. The Kushner family, prominent real estate developers, have also been generous donors…

• ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ is inspiration at Jewish charity benefit

  August 8, 2016 7:40am

  BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. (JTA) — Back in the 1990s, the Fox series “Beverly Hills, 90210″ tackled eating disorders, gun safety, addiction and AIDS in a tone so earnest that it seems quaint in the era of  “Girls” and “Broad City” — shows that eschew the moralizing of TV generations past. In what may be the most famous episode…

• Jewish transgender man gives birth and embraces life as a single ‘abba’

  January 22, 2016 10:09am

  (JTA) — When Rafi Daugherty went to the hospital for the birth of his first child, he posted a sign on the delivery room door. “I am a single transgender man having my first baby,” it read. “I use he/him/his pronouns and will be called ‘Abba’ (Hebrew for father) by the baby. Papa, Dad, Daddy,…

• Paris attacks: 120 reported dead in attacks attributed to Islamic State

  November 13, 2015 6:56pm

  Multiple attacks rocked the French capital on Friday night, killing more than 120 people and injuring 350.

• Jewish Federations confab seeks healing after Iran rancor

  November 10, 2015 6:05pm

  At the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly, leaders looked to turn the page on the divisive debate over the Iran deal.

• What Jews with disabilities can teach the rest of us

  November 3, 2015 5:29pm

  This week’s inaugural Ruderman Inclusion Summit focused on making the Jewish community and society at large more welcoming for people with disabilities.

• What the Klinghoffers taught me — and the world

  October 20, 2015 1:15pm

  Thirty years ago, the Klinghoffers put a face on victims of terror. More recently, they modeled for me what life after loss could be.

• Comity, foreign policy differences are hallmarks of Democratic debate

  October 14, 2015 12:09am

  Bernie Sanders gets the applause line of the evening when he refuses to attack Hillary Clinton for her use of private emails.

• JTA scoops up three journalism prizes

  June 4, 2015 2:43pm

  JTA has won three first-place Simon Rockower Awards, which are given out by the American Jewish Press Association.