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Littenberg-Brown: Founder/President, Save a Child’s Heart’s (SACH) Young Leadership Kronfeld: Vice President, SACH Young Leadership ylg@saveachildsheart.org sachyl.tumblr.com Big hearts for little people. Michael Littenberg-Brown is a staunch Democrat, and Melissa Jane Kronfeld is an avowed Republican. But when it comes to supporting Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), a charity that enables Israeli doctors to perform […]

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Some strangers took away Marion Sacher’s special kite in 1937. And some strangers — who are becoming new friends — gave her some new ones this week. Sacher, a resident of the Kittay House independent living seniors apartment building in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, was a teen in 1937, attending a Jewish day […]

At first, Mira Awad didn’t want to be thought of as a bridge between cultures. The Palestinian-Israeli singer and songwriter grew up in an Arab village in the Galilee, studied music in Tel Aviv and has written and performed with musicians of many backgrounds. She felt the weight of being an Arab in Israel who […]

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