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“Blessed are You, Lord, our God, King of the Universe who brings forth bread from the earth.”
— Hamotzi (The Blessing Over the Bread)
Looking back on the “rocky road” that was the first part of her life, author and advocate Marya Hornbacher readily admits that she chose not to deal with her mental illness.“It’s scary to be told that you have a chronic, lifelong illness for which there is no cure,” Hornbacher told the AJW. “Acknowledging that requires you to face that fear, come to terms with it, accept it — acceptance is hard for many of us — and do a lot of work. There’s a lot of stuff to do to take care of your health.”Hornbacher’s struggles began in her teens, when she was gripped by severe anorexia and bulimia. By the time she was 20 years old, she had been hospitalized 10 or 11 times — eventually being placed on life support.At age 24, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder type I. But she turned to alcohol as a way to cope with “extreme anxiety,” which negated the drugs she had been given to manage her condition.“One does not want to have that stigma placed upon them by the social world,” she said. “And also that stigma is alive and well in us as individuals. Continue Reading
On a warm afternoon in early August, Corrine (Gottstein) Feinberg had used her mother’s dishes to set the table for a Friday afternoon lunch in her Minnetonka home.
Eva Cohen’s cultural and personal connection to Or Emet began when she was 10 years old, when she and her family became members of th
“Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club that I’d rather not belong to.” — Gilda Radner
Marian Lavintman Resnick celebrated her 94th birthday on Thursday, July 19 — with 13 of her classmates from North High School, in North Minneapolis, class of 1936.
The idea for Amy Ariel’s first novel began about 10 years ago — with a simple request from one of her students.
When playwright Neil Simon received an offer to turn his play The Sunshine Boys into a movie in the 1970s, he was told that the Paramount Pictures production was to be a vehicle for Bing C
For more than a month, 20 entrepreneurs from four Middle East countries lived and worked together in the Twin Cities. For the second year, Hamline University’s Education to Employment Fellowship Exchange Project — funded by a grant from the U.S. State Department — provided valuable business training to fellows who want to contribute to the economic development of their home communities.The fellows, who came from Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority, were recruited for their demonstrated leadership potential, after national searches were conducted with the assistance of the local cultural attaché offices of the U.S. Embassy. The 20 fellows have diverse backgrounds, and included mid-level administrators, community activists, journalists, scientists and nurses who were in Minnesota from May 14 to June 16.Four Education to Employment fellows, including Arie Bornstein (far right), work on their business plans during a recent workshop at Hamline University in St. Paul. (Photo: Erin Elliott Bryan)According to a press release, the program recognizes that conflicts and violence are “byproducts of a lack of economic opportunity.” The project’s overall hope is that “through practical training, private enterprise initiatives and constructive business leadership, job opportunities will grow in the aforementioned communities, political tensions will subside and a more hospitable environment will emerge to accommodate cultural, religious and ethnic differences, and nurture pluralism.”Hamline University has teamed up with business partners in Minnesota to instruct the fellows in formal and informal settings. Continue Reading
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