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• Worry about your kids’ character, not their grades, says author Madeline Levine

  August 20, 2012 3:39pm

  Jewish parents should pay a little less attention to their children’s grades and a little more attention to their values, says Madeline Levine, the author of the new book “Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success.”

• Spurred by a Torah portion, Alexis Kashar is breaking down barriers for deaf Jews

  June 13, 2012 2:28pm

  Alexis Kashar, an attorney specializing in special education and disability rights, is working to increase Jewish community access for the deaf and hard of hearing. And it all stems from a verse in Leviticus from her daughter’s bat mitzvah.

• Painting lives: Artist helps clients mark pivot points, from bar mitzvah dreams to a dying wish

  April 9, 2012 3:30pm

  Lori Loebelsohn enters other people’s lives at pivotal moments — a marriage, a milestone birthday, a bar mitzvah — to create what she calls “life-cycle paintings”: personalized works of art that commemorate a special day while also reflecting upon an individual’s lifetime.

• Philanthropist Jay Ruderman leads new push to help disabled

  December 9, 2011 6:51pm

  The Ruderman Family Foundation and several organizational partners are working to raise the profile of special needs inclusion within the Jewish world.

• Bratz: Jewish man’s answer to Barbie

  August 7, 2007 9:00am

  Isaac Larian, an Iranian Jewish immigrant, set out in 2000 to create an anti-Barbie. Fast forward seven years, his line of Bratz dolls is a billion-dollar industry with a new motion picture in theaters.

• Chavez visit upsets Argentine Jews

  August 7, 2007 9:00am

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s visit to Argentina upset local Jews.