Malaria in D.C.?
Last week, I attended a Malaria 101 briefing on Capitol Hill here in Washington, D.C. We heard from a panel of experts from the President’s Malaria Initiative, the Peace Corps, and the Center for...
View ArticleNothing But Nets Goes to Camp!
School is out, the weather is hot and mosquitoes are buzzing! This can only mean one thing: Reform Jewish youth across North America are in the final countdown to the opening day of summer camp! As...
View ArticleA Net Gain in Tanzania
In the northwest corner of Tanzania sits the country’s sole refugee camp. Camp Nyarugusu houses nearly 68,000 refugees, mostly from the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many have been at...
View ArticleMLK Day Interfaith Swabbing
When Jay Feinberg was diagnosed with leukemia in 1991, he needed a bone marrow transplant to survive. Because bone marrow type is linked to DNA, and therefore one’s ancestry, as an Ashkenazi Jew, Jay...
View ArticleJust One to Save a Life
I swabbed into the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry my first year at the University of North Carolina, and recently, I joined the Religious Action Center to head up its new partnership with Gift of...
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