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national history and military history

• Washington Post: aging donors' items spurs museum to expand
• Balt. Sun: George Washington's funeral re-enacted
• Japanese-American World War II combat unit
• Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation draft
• tour of Lincoln sites in Kentucky and Illinois
• Vietnam War Memorial's 10th anniversary
• World War II partisan fighters honored
• Arlington Nat'l. Cemetery chaplains memorial
• Americans honored for Korean War service
• MIAs forgotten 30 years after Lebanon War
• bringing Biblical history to IDF soldiers
• G.I. mourns Vietnam chaplain 50 years later
• exhibition honors 350 years of military duty
• WWI Lt.-Col. John Henry Patterson reburied
• Metropolitan Museum of Art's new president
• granddaughter recalls WWII colonel
• Georgia Gov. Slaton posthumously honored
• Philadelphia exhibit honors gay-rights pioneers
• a museum that's an experience, with no exhibits
• museum commemorates famed WWII revolt
• Uncle Sam-like character loves America -- and July 4th

• archaeologists collaborate with ... police detectives 

• burying Dachau bones a U.S. soldier sent home

• identifying soldiers' remains 75 years later

• a non-Ukrainian foreigner fights for Ukraine

• on Memorial Day, honoring soldiers' diversity

industry

• Fast Company: innovative companies: Israel ('14)
• Fast Company: innovative companies: Israel ('15)
• Fast Company: creating water out of thick air
• Fast Company: innovative co's: India and Israel (2017)
• Fast Company: innovative co's: India and Israel (2018)
• media
• how a nonprofit agency saved a man's life
• aviation
• optometry (product review)
• a farm that's also a furniture manufacturer
• food wholesaler ages cheese in home basement

business/finance features

• Wall Street Journal: diner in classic film Diner
• product reviews of optometry machines
• Middle East investment
• customer service
• interview: Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
• profile: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown
• unlikely furniture behemoth -- an Israeli kibbutz
• building credit/savings for those over age 50
• man who sells a citron for $400
• teenagers are trained to become entrepreneurs
• medical professional expands into business side

relationships

• The Washington Post: friends' annual reunion
• nightmares vs. dreams for singles
• ex-spouses cooperating for kids' benefit
• an ex-Hamas terrorist and his Shin Bet handler
• mothers bond over their sons' deaths
• NBA coach cherishes ties with Seattle friends
• friends recall U.S.-born soldiers killed in Gaza
• family of late Canadian GI seeks man he aided
• honoring her late father's love of Greece
• brothers catch up far from their Chicago roots
• for 45 years, sons gather at mother's grave
• Ukrainians and Russians room together when war breaks out

• Ukrainians sheltered as one good turn deserves another

• mother's sculpture mourns massacre of her family

personality profiles

• People magazine: man who gives away books
• Rahm Emanuel (President Clinton's chief of staff)
• Uruguay's President Luis Alberto LaCalle
• Chicken Lady of Jerusalem
• lawyer whose daughter was killed by terrorists
• traveling saleswoman
• pilot who teaches his son to fly
• artist who commemorates murder victims
• rabbi who performs gay/lesbian weddings
• Arlington National Cemetery researcher
• Americans adapting to living in Israel
• U.S. envoy Dennis Ross, who worked closely with Yitzhak Rabin
• eccentric U.S. congressman Sonny Callahan
• teacher recalled 40 years after being killed at 25
• Philadelphia native's job: subtitling porn
• Japanese man honors countrymen as WWII heroes
• Metis activist leads another indigenous group
• columnist extraordinaire Charles Krauthammer
• Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh
• man thanks kin of mother's rescuers at Christmas
• 75+ years on, woman reunites grandpa with kin

music

• audio exhibition: iconic holiday music
• adapting Leonard Cohen's iconic "Hallelujah"
• Chicagoan promotes the blues abroad
• music, folk dancing comfort DJ after wife's death

themed newsletters

• AARP
• Tennessee Holocaust Commission
• Baltimore synagogue
• Baltimore business consultant

aviation marketing campaign

• sheriff's department to the rescue
• priests who fly
• tumbling out of bed and into the cockpit
• Florida aero clubs
• corn cob-driven power
• bringing dental care to Mexico
• treating Amish patients in Wisconsin
• scattering loved ones' remains
• saving premature babies
• from the food business to owning the Houston Astros
• banner days in the flag business
• parachute testing
• grain warehousing and firefighting
• firefighting and first aid
• boosting a town's economy
• mining from the air
• assisting Hurricane Katrina victims  
• pilot who teaches his son to fly
• adventures of a pilot-diplomat

magazine production

• literary journal
• reunion journal
• university program

position papers

• preserving wage-standard laws   

politics/diplomacy

• interview: President Clinton
• interview: Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
• a behind-the-scenes look at U.S. policymaking
• speechwriters use humor to humanize presidential candidates
• on-site coverage of President Clinton's visit to Israel and Gaza   
• citizens fly back to vote in Israel's 2014 election
• teacher employs Talmudic humor in '14 election
• U.S. diplomat returns to private life, but overseas
• a diplomat retires, emerging as a poet/translator

food

• a famed Jerusalem market gentrifies
• when gluten-free foods are plentiful
• The Cheese Guy and his cellar wheels
• central Israel's wine region
• essay: the late, great food historian/writer Gil Marks
• essay: holiday applesauce and family shifts
• Passover wines come of age
• a white Moscato wine's crossover appeal
• basketball player discovers country through wine
• man who makes Leich Cream -- er, ice cream
• an annual festival of yummy dairy foods

• all-volunteer corps assures food for hungry people

• consulting on nutrition to improve cardiac health
• Penguin restaurant's closing ends an 82-year era

• Thanksgiving's turkey-purchase challenges

• donuts so yummy and beautiful

workplace

• essay: being laid off
• essay: the pros and cons of working at home
• diversity on the job   
• family-owned Baltimore shop looted in riots

technology

• see Fast Company links in "industry" section, above
• seniors stay in touch with grandchildren
• drawing young people to perform social service
• employing technology for family research: 
  see "genealogy" section (in right-hand column) 

law

• assessing political asylum claims
• Supreme Court case tackles animal sacrifice
• Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton
• UPI: Iran-contra trial of CIA official Clair George
• an ex-Hamas terrorist gains asylum in America   
• trial of man accused of sexually assaulting
  children: jury selection, Day 1, 1B, 2, 2B, 3, 3B,
 4, 4B, 4C, 5, 5B, 6, 6B, 7, 7B, 7C
• Associated Press: trial for vandalizing planes

political essays

• standing up for principles on Memorial Day

personal essays on family life

• N.Y. Times: imparting history to my sons
• The Washington Post: corresponding w/grandma
• teaching my son
• my shocking genealogy discoveries
• traveling abroad with my children during wartime   
• holiday applesauce and family shifts
• visiting the grave of an uncle who set an example
• national mourning becomes a personal experience
• planting a tree in Uncle Charlie's memory

culture and slice-of-life features

• Vietnam War Memorial
• a Japanese-American World War II army unit
• New Mexico's ethnicities
• Jews of Wyoming
• ethnic shifts on New York's Lower East Side
• gritty Jerusalem market area goes a bit upscale
• Argentinians mourn prosecutor and bomb victims
• farmer plays it cool on border with enemy country
• woman gives museum the doll that got her through WWII
• terrorist threat beneath an apple farmer's orchards
• youth abroad bring commitment to military
• photo essay: strangers bury a terrorism victim

education

• a Baltimore private school charging no tuition
• new groups help combat threats on U.S. campuses
• U.S. combat soldier attending rabbinical school
• adult education attracts senior citizens
• camps share news of murdered teenagers
• N.C. students investigate fate of 1939 letter-writer
• Azerbaijan educators strive in science and innovation
• a country where sleepaway camps aren't the norm

• transsexual student evicted from school

travel

• India
• Portugal
• organizing a child-friendly visit to Israel
• traveling abroad with children during wartime
• Washington sites of political scandals
• adventures of a pilot-diplomat   
• central-Israel wine region heralded
• Beersheba outgrows "desert capital" image
• the sounds of war from across the border
• a weekend's insight into Bedouin life
• a Jerusalem hotel's art influences inside and out
• a walking tour of Maccabees' roots

• peeking into a remote town reclusive for decades  

religion features

• Pope John Paul II's Mass at Camden Yards
• Christian supporters of Israel
• bar/bat mitzvah ceremonies:
  • bar/bat mitzvah for a special-needs child
  • appropriate gifts for bar/bat mitzvah kids
  • investing gifts with meaning through charity
  • coming of age brings with it responsibility
• Christians who immigrate to Israel
• couple (ages 94 and 91) shake things up
• farms preserve agricultural festival

• frenetic city a silent oasis one day each year 

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sports

• N.Y. Times: essay on 1972 Olympian David Berger

• N.Y. Times: pitching coach considers next move
• N.Y. Times: Pittsburgh Pirates stay relevant
• N.Y. Times: Orioles broadcaster Gary Thorne
• N.Y. Times: exciting Rays vs. Orioles series
• N.Y. Times: ex-UConn players on Jim Calhoun
• N.Y. Times: ex-Nationals manager Jim Riggleman
• N.Y. Times: daughter of the great Walter Johnson
• N.Y. Times: brother (Nationals), sister (Cardinals)
• N.Y. Times: World Series: 1912 centennial
• N.Y. Times: athletes who've served in Congress
• N.Y. Times: Omri Casspi in Cleveland's rotation
• N.Y. Times: great-grandson of Joe Tinker
• N.Y. Times: Ohio's Nick Swisher joins Indians
• N.Y. Times: a football broadcaster ... at age 12
• N.Y. Times: Ravens embrace Baltimore's Colts
• N.Y. Times: Tim Flannery's baseball/music loves
• N.Y. Times: Cleveland's League Park reborn
• N.Y. Times: baseball teams employing historians
• N.Y. Times: Boston University's super fan
• N.Y. Times: Amar'e Stoudemire heads to Israel
• N.Y. Times: forgotten baseball pioneer Bud Fowler honored
• N.Y. Times: NBA players who become referees
• N.Y. Times: first Harvard player in NBA playoffs
• N.Y. Times: Orioles pitcher Jim Johnson loves hockey
• N.Y. Times: pink bats used on Mother's Day
• N.Y. Times: Orioles' Chris Davis emerges as star
• N.Y. Times: Eddie Plank and the Battle of Gettysburg
• N.Y. Times: the 19th Maccabiah opens in Israel
• N.Y. Times: Pittsburgh doubleheader excitement
• N.Y. Times: knuckleball maestro Phil Niekro tutors Orioles
• N.Y. Times: skateboard, unicycle deliver players
• N.Y. Times: groundbreaking groundskeepers
• N.Y. Times: St. Louis Browns' legacy maintained
• N.Y. Times: opera-singing Ravens kicker
• N.Y. Times: NHL's Sochi Olympics break
• N.Y. Times: hockey team unites Israeli kids
• N.Y. Times: U.Va. walk-on reaches NCAAs
• Omri Casspi, the first Israeli player in NBA
• marathon runners who bridge a social divide
• Jerusalem Marathon coverage: March 2012
• athletes heading to 2012 London Olympics
• from homeless teen to 2012 Paralympian
• educating kids about 1972 Munich Olympians
• Omri Casspi, now stuck on Cleveland's bench
• 1996 Atlanta Olympics: on-site coverage of Centennial Olympic Park bombing
• 1996 Atlanta Olympics: daily news and features coverage
• Detroit Lions player makes transition to medicine
• basketball coaching legend Red Auerbach
• UConn guard Doron Sheffer
• Olympics filmmaker Bud Greenspan
• American basketball player dealing with life abroad: Part I
• American basketball player dealing with life abroad: Part II
• Baltimore Orioles players bicycling to games
• Shay Doron of the 2006 basketball champions U. Maryland
• Jerusalem grave of a Philadelphia Phillies fan
• baseball exhibit solicits fans' memories, artifacts
• coach leaves NBA, returns to Seattle (local angle)
• Maccabi Haifa upsets Israel's basketball dynasty
• Doron Sheffer (ex-UConn), leading a religious life
• 2013 Maccabiah Games:
 • recruiting "new" countries to send athletes
 • star hockey coach who overcame illiteracy
 • a meaningful coming-of-age ceremony
 • Amar'e Stoudemire discusses spirituality
 • star softball pitcher, now in a wheelchair
 • masters-level athletes from Los Angeles
 • Olympic medalist chosen as U.S. flag bearer
 • Argentine athletes commemorate victims
 • Cuba's karate mother and karate son
 • India's tennis-playing father-son team
 • Mongolia sends its first athlete
 • Digger Phelps returns to coaching
 • ESPN's Dan Shulman, injured on first play
• film recalls Cleveland Indians' great Al Rosen
• Oakland A's first baseman Nate Freiman
• camp owner mourns ex-Knick Dean Meminger
• Israeli sculptor is U.S. sports teams' go-to guy
• World Series: Adam Grossman markets Red Sox
• World Series: Red Sox' brainy pitcher Craig Breslow
• Gal Mekel of Dallas  joins Houston's Omri Casspi in NBA
• Brad Ausmus: from Team Israel to Detroit Tigers
• lacrosse serving as a vehicle for social good
• half-court shot = free tuition
• displaced-persons camp to baseball historian
• 76ers statistician who predates the NBA
• how Gal Mekel's first NBA season is going
• London Fletcher's Cleveland mentors pre-NFL
• Hy Buller to Mike Brown: Jewish NHL players
• Boston man's book a baseball-loving oral history
• Super Bowl XLVIII/2014: on-site coverage:
 • does God care?
 • Seattle Seahawks-themed face painter
 • groundskeepers prepare the snowy, icy field
• boy (hockey) honors uncle's memory (baseball)
• 2014 Olympics: Sochi-bound, NJ-trained skaters
• college basketball's leading rebounder
• baseball exhibit opens at Philadelphia museum
• basketball pioneer Eddie Gottlieb to be honored
• Eddie Gottlieb's legacy at his Philly high school
• "Hockey Maven" Stan Fischler
• Larry Brown leads SMU to 24-9 season and NIT
• Bruce Pearl returns to hoops as Auburn's coach
• 2014 Major League Baseball season preview
• basketball tournament draws students socially, too
• Baltimore Orioles' greeter brings joy to fans
• NBA preseason games tip of iceberg for Israelis
• Wizards broadcasters finally active in playoffs
• ex-Mets 1B Ike Davis adapts to Pittsburgh
• Astros pitcher Josh Zeid returns to the majors
• Tigers manager Brad Ausmus and 2B Ian Kinsler
• the baseballing Shapiro guys: Ron, Mark, Caden
• couple welcomes fans to World Cup in Brazil
• executive relishes Oakland Athletics' success
• lacrosse goalie who'd come out as gay
• 2014 World Lacrosse Championships:
 preliminaries, second round and quarterfinals
• Washington Generals' owner Red Klotz dies
• Cooperstown awaits Hall of Fame inductions
• hockey-playing kids teach peers overseas
• former WNBA president in her role as a mother
• 2014 NFL season preview
• debut a heartbreaker for Dodgers' Joc Pederson
• trainer/coach prepares prospects for hoops careers
• female coach of a men's collegiate volleyball team
• LeBron James and Cavaliers coach welcome Israeli club
• Amar'e Stoudemire encourages youths' donations
• NFL game-day programs in London, 2014:
 • Hall of Famer Dick "Night Train" Lane of the Detroit Lions
 • Atlanta Falcons lineman Bill Fralic
 • Jacksonville Jaguars q.b. Mark Brunell
• baseball players changing teams post-2014 season
• charities gain from baseball paintings/autographs
• Dallas rec-football group marks 50th year
• Vancouver man loves Cuba's baseball scene
• 76ers/NBA legend Harvey Pollack hopitalized
• interview with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman
• "Deflategate" and ethics in sports
• Croatian teen hoops star Dragan Bender
• David Blatt adjusts to NBA with LeBron James's help

• Harvard's Zach Yoshor in NCAA's March Madness
• a former UConn reserve's fulfilling new job
• Miami Marlins executive on team's strategy
• NFL high draftee Ali Marpet from DIII Hobart
• '15 Stanley Cup: Lightning owner Jeff Vinik
• Blue Jays' Kevin Pillar: tattoos, granddad and wall-climbing
• Berlin competitions hold meaning beyond sports
• Berlin photo essay: European Maccabi Games
• Brewers coach Jerry Narron's baseball side gig
• Israeli-European cycling team makes its debut
• NHL executive Jessica Berman a hero off the ice
• Sandy Koufax's example recalled 50 years later
• L.A. Dodgers rookie centerfielder Joc Pederson
• Baltimore Orioles' J.J. Hardy attends U.S. Open
• welterweight boxer honors his late grandfather
• Oakland A's hire Justine Siegal as first female MLB coach
• finding British kin of ex-Dodgers' Norm Sherry
• launching a baseball internship abroad
• fans 7,000 miles away upset as Cavaliers fire David Blatt
• historical marker for statistician Harvey Pollack
• 2016 baseball season preview
• Interviews for new Jewish Baseball Museum:
 • Nolan Ryan on Jimmie Reese's influence
 • Mike Epstein on Ted Williams's teachings
 • MLB's official historian John Thorn
 • Justine Siegal, baseball coach for men's teams
 • Peter Kurz, president of Israel Assn. of Baseball
 • Art Shamsky of 1969 champions N.Y. Mets
 • Norm Sherry on Koufax, Ryan and ... Kurt Russell
 • professor of baseball Sol Gittleman
 • prominent baseball journalists
 • St. Louis Cardinals fans for five generations
 • 1972 All Star outfielder Richie Scheinblum
 • Red Sox coach and former GM Ruben Amaro Jr.
 • Jerry Weinstein prepares to manage in WBC
 • Dean Kremer, pitcher on Israel's WBC squad
 • from Shea Stadium beer-hawking to journalism
• Nate Freiman on the road back to the majors
• Namibian bicyclist Dan Craven
• Olympians killed in the Shoah (Holocaust)
• Brooke Smith: Stanford to WNBA to medicine
• 12-year-olds assist their baseball teammate
• 12-year-olds assist their baseball teammate (Yiddish version!)
• swimmer Andi Murez an Olympian in Rio
• gymnast makes Olympics history for Armenia
• baseball beach books: Braves, Cubs, '81 strike
• racewalker and Munich Olympics survivor Shaul Ladany
• Minnesota Vikings owner Mark Wilf
• Bryan Harper grinds to join brother Bryce in D.C.
• 2016 World Baseball Classic:

  • WBC Brooklyn qualifiers preview
 • Israel defeats Great Britain in opener
 • Israel defeats Brazil in Game 2 to reach final
 • Israel defeats Great Britain in final
 • wrap-up of Israel's WBC win in Brooklyn
• Cubs in World Series and a president-envoy bond
• World Baseball Classic players visit Israel
• Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: friendly marathon rivals
• Cuban pitcher coaches far from home
• Jim Brown and 17 other NFL HOFers go abroad
• U.S. athletes traveling abroad find love
• book tells of 1942 film The Pride of the Yankees
• baseball sabermetrician's humanitarian quest
• standout ex-NFL referee Jerry Markbreit
• tending to athletes at PyeongChang Olympics
• Astros 3B Alex Bregman a budding star
• Stan "The Hockey Maven" Fischler retires
• 2018 World Lacrosse Championship:
 • South Korea's Yoo brothers make the world better
 • building lacrosse at the grass roots in Israel
 • how a new lacrosse country came to host championship
 • participants ignore security issues, boycott threat
• basketball player discovers country through wine
• star running back abroad strives to reach NCAA
• Scotland's soccer fans travel far to support team
• ex-NHLer Bobby Holik grows hockey overseas
• ski-patrol team treats serious injuries on slopes
• ultra-athlete returns following partial amputation
• Hall of Famer Slava Fetisov skates to warn of global warming
• MLB's London games a return to baseball's roots
• training for American Ninja Warrior competition
• an Olympic team where baseball's barely a blip?
• same Olympics-baseball article (Hebrew version)
• MMA fighters: like father, like son
• Olympic baseballers visit country they'll play for
• Cubs' minor-league coach on a path to Olympics
• as it awaits NHL team, Seattle still pines for NBA
• coronavirus sends basketball player back to Portland

• pandemic sends lacrosse players abroad

• pandemic spurs soccer referee to adjust her medical career

• Japanese baseball coach goes home for Tokyo Olympics

• Buffalo, N.Y., hockey marathon aids cancer research

• figure skater unretires to compete at 2022 Beijing Olympics

• N.Y. Islanders honor Stan Fischler as he turns 90

• 1982 Islanders title recalled 40 years later by two fans

• athletes and dads discuss Father's Day

• adult athletes celebrate bar/bat mitzvah

• President Biden sings "Happy Birthday" to athlete

• Ian Kinsler takes reins of World Baseball Classic team

• women's hockey debuts as Canada defeats U.S.

• billionaire #1: Stuart Weitzman competes in table tennis

• billionaire #2: Sylvan Adams promotes cycling

• 50 years on, Munich Olympics victims' families pursue justice

• Druze woman defies neighbors to excel at rugby

• major leaguers look ahead to 2023 World Baseball Classic

• N.Y. Islanders name press box for Stan Fischler

• Blessing Afrifa, 18, the world's 100-meter champion

• ex-NFL player beats alcoholism, copes with young son's death

• Christian major leaguers visit the Holy Land

medicine and health care

• preparing astronauts for emergencies in space
• America's leading cancer hospital
• products that save U.S. soldiers' lives
• Cleveland Clinic
• U.S. military's innovations treat combat injuries
• medical professionals help rescue sex-trafficked patients  
• preventing genetic diseases by prenatal testing
• preventing and dealing with breast cancer
• MRI exam of vegetative patient, Ariel Sharon
• celiac sufferers and gluten-intolerant find relief
• U.S. Coast Guard crew delivers health care
• providing health care at the South Pole
• photo exhibition reveals caregivers' humanity
• medical profession launches far from U.S. roots
• physician assistant keeps athletes healthy
• keeps White House officials healthy; his life saved
• American Heart Month: PAs' contributions
• providing health care at the Winter Olympics
• how point-of-care ultrasound aids diagnoses
• arthritis not just an older person's affliction
• flying into the eye of hurricanes
• Antarctica attracts medical provider ... three times
• medical error nearly killed man, but he forgives
• man commutes 6,000 miles to his NY hospital job
• on slopes, treating injured skiers/snowboarders
• Americans bring health-care expertise to Africa
• touting nephrology health on World Kidney Day
• summoning alertness and care to prevent suicide
• he removes tattoos to help people create new lives
• medical specialists head to Training Rheum
• keeping children safe from on-line threats
• medical science liaisons: pharma's bridge to docs
• Great Britain addresses healthcare challenges
• treating victims of the El Paso mass shooting
• students' medical tutorials help others worldwide
• an inside look at a coronavirus department
• medical practice is hacked for ransom
• Antarctica as a wondrous place to practice medicine

• nephrology specialists love work-life balance

• son in vegetative state, but parents maintain hope

• Ukrainians hospitalized after losing legs in war

• providing psychological aid for traumatized Ukrainians 

reuniting people's long-lost families and friends

SYNDICATED COLUMN (launched in 2011):
Please see this Web site's "Seeking Kin" page.

genealogy

• technology enables genealogy research: Part I
• technology enables genealogy research: Part II
• international conference on genealogy
• genealogy as an academic pursuit