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Raffi Wineburg
Raffi Wineburg
Aaron Epelbaum shelving books at the Eagle River Library (Courtesy of Ramah Wisconsin/JTA)
April 4, 2015, 9:48 pm
Vocational programs at summer camps promote inclusion
Job training at camp the logical next step for youth with disabilities to strengthen social and independent-living skills
By Raffi Wineburg
A beta tester plays 'Angry Birds' on the Sesame phone, winner of last year's Powerful Answers award. (Basti Hansen/JTA)
February 21, 2015, 3:22 am
Hands-free smartphone opens worlds for disabled
The winner of a $1m. Verizon Powerful Answers Award, Sesame Enable’s first phones, ordered via Indiegogo, will ship in March
By Raffi Wineburg
Troops with their Hannukah care packages. (Photo credit: Ava Hamburger/courtesy )
December 20, 2014, 3:01 pm
Hanukkah love in US armed forces
Jewish military personnel deployed around the globe receive care packages for holidays from organization called Kosher Troops
By Raffi Wineburg
Star of David necklace (image via Shutterstock)
December 6, 2014, 2:06 am
Ex-atheist fights Star of David in school
Ernest Perce of East Pennsboro, PA, has petitioned the school district to ban son’s teacher’s Jewish necklace
By Raffi Wineburg
An interfaith panel at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 2013. (photo credit: JTA/ Courtesy of the Jewish Theological Seminary)
November 22, 2014, 12:43 am
Amid religious violence in Israel, American leaders celebrate interfaith success
On day Palestinian terrorists killed Jews at prayer in Jerusalem, a New York gathering brought together Jewish and Muslim leaders
By Raffi Wineburg
Emily Kessler strums the mandolin in her Upper West Side apartment. (photo credit: Raffi Wineburg/JTA)
November 4, 2014, 1:42 am
At 97, a survivor’s NY mandolin debut
Ukrainian-born Emily Kessler learned the instrument at age 10, avoided it for over 50 years, and is now performing at Lincoln Center
By Raffi Wineburg
People, some in wheelchairs, gather at Lincoln Center as they protest "Death of Klinghoffer" Monday, Oct 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)
October 22, 2014, 6:02 am
‘Klinghoffer’ ticket holders talk back
Show-goers feel unfairly judged by those who didn’t see the opera which protesters say is anti-Semitic, sympathetic to terrorists
By Raffi Wineburg
A fleet of pedi-sukkahs cruise through New York City. (Photo credit: Chabad.org / JTA)
October 8, 2014, 7:41 pm
Three wheels and three walls in NY
All aboard the pedi-sukkah, a rickshaw bicycle with a mobile sukkah attached, invented by a Brooklyn yeshiva student
By Raffi Wineburg
Protestors attend the arrivals at Metropolitan Opera 2014-15 Season Opening on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in New York. The crowd was protesting the Met's decision to premiere a controversial opera 'Death of Klinghoffer,' about the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
September 24, 2014, 4:48 pm
At opening night ‘Klinghoffer’ protest, Met meets angry Jews
The 1991 John Adams opera depicts the 1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists which ended with the murder of Leon Klinghoffer
By Raffi Wineburg
September 18, 2014, 6:46 am
Joshua Venture Group announces first all-female cohort
Nonprofit which invests in Jewish entrepreneurs says new 2014-2016 fellows are all women
By Raffi Wineburg
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