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February 12, 2013
3:28 pm

An art therapist with a background in Jewish studies, Shira Frimer hopes her new book will inspire young children fighting cancer. (Avi Jacob)

Widow combines Kabbalah and comics to fight cancer

In a new graphic novel aimed at kids battling the disease, art therapist Shira Frimer turns her husband into a superhero

By Sharon Kanon

December 27, 2012
2:45 am

Now in their 80s, Rose and Ralph Gartenberg recently traveled from London to Israel on El Al -- the same trip that introduced them 63 years ago. (Courtesy of the Gartenberg family)

For young Holocaust refugees, early El Al trip proved love at first flight

Despite an emergency landing, the airline’s inaugural trip from London set a lifelong romance on its path to takeoff

By Sharon Kanon