News > Stories,photos
5013 results total, viewing 3281 - 3290
|
Emotional growth and socialization are hot topics in today’s ‘healthy aging’ world.
While filming “The Age of Love,” his eye-opening documentary on seniors who go speed dating, director Steven Loring spent months observing the ins and …
more
1/7/16
|
|
As we begin a new year, we all wish for ourselves, and others, a year filled with good health, financial stability and happiness.
But what is happiness? It is often thought of as the good life, freedom from suffering, flourishing, well-being, …
more
BONNIE RYVICKER
|
1/7/16
|
|
JTA – The Anne Frank House had a record number of visitors for the sixth consecutive year.
In 2015, some 1,268,095 people visited the Anne Frank House, located at the site in Amsterdam where the young diarist hid from the Nazis with her …
more
1/7/16
|
|
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A record number of more than 1.72 million visitors came to the Auschwitz memorial in 2015.
The new mark breaks the standard of 1.534 million visitors set last year, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland …
more
1/7/16
|
|
Archival boxes come in many sizes – large or small, rectangular or cylindrical, wide or narrow. They all have one thing in common – their dull gray color. Lined up as they are in the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association’s archives, they …
more
GERALDINE S. FOSTER
|
1/7/16
|
|
Growing old is not for the faint of heart; you need a positive attitude, says the Association of Mature American Citizens.
A new, one-of-a-kind study led by Becca Levy, associate professor of epidemiology and psychology at the Yale School of …
more
1/7/16
|
|
The fact that you experience a “senior moment” now and again doesn’t mean you’re losing it, reports the Association of Mature American Citizens. Forgetfulness is part of the aging process. “It’s normal to forget some things, and to …
more
1/7/16
|
|
If you start collecting Social Security benefits at age 62, keep in mind that you still won’t be eligible for Medicare until you reach age 65. So unless you’re eligible for retiree health benefits through your former employer or your …
more
Barbara Kennerson
|
1/7/16
|
|
Trying to poke people with a sword isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of ways to find yourself, but 15-year-old Julia Shalansky credits fencing with giving her confidence, maturity and an outgoingness that she says she …
more
ARIEL BROTHMAN
|
1/7/16
|
|
TEL AVIV (JTA) – Until Jan. 1, this city had been largely untouched by the recent wave of near-daily attacks by Palestinians on Israeli civilians.
Several incidents did strike Tel Aviv – a soldier was stabbed with a …
more
YARDENA SCHWARTZ
|
1/7/16
|
published by
