EMPATHY WITHOUT BORDERS: The Baltimore Jewish Times profiles Susan Retik, a Boston woman who lost her husband on 9/11 and co-founded a charity to help widows in Afghanistan. “I just wanted to reach out to Afghan women, just like the world reached out to me after 9/11,” she says. “I was shocked to learn how […]

HURRICANE HERO: The New York Jewish Week remembers David Reichenberg, a 50-year-old father of four from Spring Valley, N.Y., who died after being electrocuted while saving a boy and his father from a powerline downed by Hurricane Irene. “He didn’t hesitate. He didn’t think about the risk. He just thought about saving a kid,” neighbor […]