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Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation, dies of breast cancer
Author Elizabeth Wurtzel, best known for her memoir Prozac Nation, died at age 52 after a five-year fight with breast cancer. Wurtzel’s blockbuster memoir, Prozac Nation, which came out in 1994 when she was only 27 years old, detailed her struggles with anti-depressants. Wurtzel was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2015. The same year, [...]
Continue reading...An inspirational view on a Seder
February 8, 2013
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In Every Generation: The JDC Haggadah Edited by Linda Levi and Ilana Stern Kabak Devora Publishing, 2010 92 pages, $19.95 (paper) ISBN 978-1-936068-13 In my youth there was only one kind of haggadah, the kind that was free, distributed by either the Maxwell House Coffee company or a local bank. There were no haggadot for [...]
Continue reading...Super Sunday Committee makes an investment in community
December 21, 2012
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When creating the theme for this year’s Super Sunday fundraising phone-a-thon, the young Jewish community leaders on the steering committee opted to toss out the cutesy and sporty ideas of the past. The 10 Super Sunday committee members instead chose a concept that would resonate for all of the donors in the area who will [...]
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January 16, 2020
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