Remembering Herbert Zweibon, founder and president of Americans for a Safe Israel, and Kusha Kriger, a Soviet Red Army soldier; also, the phenomenon of online funerals.
In tangible manifestations of the exponential growth of Jewish community interest in contemporary food issues, synagogues, JCCs, day schools and camps across North America are dedicating hundreds of acres of land for growing vegetables. Most of the efforts combine growing with opportunities for Jewish learning, social action or environmental awareness.
An American Jewish Committee official writes of an international coalition undertaking the vital task of ensuring that long-ignored mass graves of Holocaust shooting victims in the former Soviet Union are preserved and protected, and the victims are remembered.