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For seven years Bertha Laufer, an intelligent, articulate, retired New York City English teacher, lived in a non-Jewish nursing home in the Bronx and would help some of her nurses with their high school equivalency courses. But none of her relatives lived in New York and as the years went by, she became lonelier and […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315