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Abigail Pickus

Sydney Kamen with a village leader in rural Burma in an unofficial refugee camp that is one of SOAP’s partner communities. (Courtesy of Kamen/via JTA)
August 12, 2017, 11:53 pm
Armed with soap, Jewish teen targets disease and poverty in the Third World
Sydney Kamen saw 1.8 million dying annually due to poor hygiene. Now, her nonprofit trains women and children to recycle, resell, and teach others about proper soap use
By Abigail Pickus
Hockey player Sam Fields was diagnosed with cancer at age 27, just weeks before he was scheduled to go to NHL training camp. (Courtesy ICRF/via JTA)
March 11, 2017, 4:57 pm
Miracle drug with Israeli roots saves Jewish hockey player hit with cancer
In 2003, when Sam Fields was given two weeks to live, Gleevec wasn’t known to help his condition. 14 years later, back from death’s door, the athlete says without it, he simply ‘wouldn’t be here’
By Abigail Pickus
December 7, 2013, 3:08 pm
Abigail Pickus
In the search for love, mending the brokenness
After years of knocking on the wrong doors, she finally found the right door, answered by a man who could let her in
American brands including Facebook and Apple on black kippot in a Judaica shop on Ben Yehuda Street. (Photo credit: Sophie Gordon / Flash 90)
August 7, 2012, 2:08 am
The power of personal connection
As the Jewish community turns to crowdfunding, organizations are looking at ways of exploiting individuals’ use of social media, where the exposure is exponential
By Abigail Pickus
American Jewish author Joshua Henkin. (photo credit: Matthew Polis)
July 11, 2012, 4:48 pm
‘The World Without You’: Three days and eight points of view
In Joshua Henkin’s new novel, a year after a beloved son/brother/husband’s death, his American Jewish family spends a muggy three-day weekend together mourning, celebrating and fighting. How the story is, and isn’t, based on Henkin’s family
By Abigail Pickus
Shari Arison participating in 2011's International Good Deeds Day. (Photo credit: Sivan Farag)
March 14, 2012, 10:06 am
International Good Deeds Day, brought to you by Israeli billionaire Shari Arison
Last year saw 160,000 do-gooders across the globe volunteering in everything from cleaning nature reserves to donating blood
By Abigail Pickus
Ethiopian Jews sitting in the sun in Ashkelon in late January. (Photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
February 24, 2012, 11:47 am
The ‘lost generation’
There are currently an estimated 120,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, 50% of whom live below the poverty line and 63% receive some sort of governmental assistance
By Abigail Pickus
All studies point to a correlation between Israel trips and a strong Jewish identity. (Photo credit: Melanie Fidler /Flash90)
February 16, 2012, 1:52 pm
Young Rothschildren?
Are NextGen Jews putting their money where their mouths are?
By Abigail Pickus
Taglit Birthright participants at an event in Jerusalem in 2011. (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
February 14, 2012, 2:24 pm
The case of the NextGen Jews
First in a two-part series on what Jewish organizations are doing to cultivate 20- and-30-somethings
By Abigail Pickus
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