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Marlee Matlin: Breaking barriers and following her dreams

Mala Blomquist
Features, J Living
October 2, 2018

Marlee Matlin was only 21 years old when she received the Academy Award for her role in “Children of a Lesser God.” She played Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who is speechless by choice and working as a janitor at a school for the deaf and hard of hearing where she meets the new…

JNF GROWING IN PORTLAND, PACIFIC NW

Deborah Moon
Israel, J Living
October 2, 2018

PHOTO: On his second JNFuture mission to Israel, Dan Spear visits the tree he planted on his first mission the year before. Following a rather common path for Jewish teenagers, Dan Spear “dropped out” of organized Jewish life after his bar mitzvah in New Jersey. Then he planted a tree in Israel. Now 39,…

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