Profiles
Bringing People Together, One Snack at a Time
November 2, 2007
October 31 2007
If people from different backgrounds can find common ground, according to Daniel Lubetzky, it’s food – and the desire to prosper.
The founder of PeaceWorks, a food and condiment company, Lubetzky, 38, has promoted over...
‘I Don’t Know What I Can Give This City, But I’ll Do My Best’
October 3, 2007
October 3rd 2007
It’s Wednesday afternoon, and Shadin Hossain is surrounded by people. A friend named Joe runs in to ask if anyone wants coffee.
Alam, Hossain’s brother and his co-manager of Galleria – an art and framing store in...
I Want to Change the Power Dynamics in Relationships
July 4, 2007
Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 4:00 AM
Even after Dr. Mehret Mandefro had repeatedly warned them to always use a condom, girls and women would return to her office with sexually transmitted diseases. She was deeply disturbed and wondered...
Living a Dream – Literally
June 12, 2007
Tuesday, June 12th 2007
One night in 1995, the Rev. Paul Vincent dreamed his future. Then an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, he saw himself arriving at Kennedy Airport and meeting a woman he had not seen in some...
I Look at Medicine as an Instrument of Social Justice
May 3, 2007
Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 8:54 PM
An ordinary mortal can’t help but wonder how Dr. Philip Ozuah does it. At 44, Ozuah is physician in chief of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. He also is chairman of...
Giving Generations of Sephardim a Chance at Higher Education
April 11, 2007
April 11, 2007
During the early 1970s, Nina Weiner realized that if she were going to help Israeli Sephardim – Jews whose ancestors had immigrated to Israel from the Arab world, Asia and Africa – she would have to think outside the...
Maybe God Has a Purpose for Me Here
March 22, 2007
Thursday, March 22nd 2007, 9:02 AM
When Bizu Riki Mullu was a girl, the people of her village of Mauri, in northern Ethiopia, would come out in January and sing to the storks crossing the sky. “The villagers knew the birds came...
Building Hope
September 18, 2006
September 18, 2006
The dwelling had no electricity, no windows, no heat and little furniture. Inside were a mother, six children and a crippled father. Garo Armen remembers using the light of a camera’s flash to catch glimpses of the...
Taking Courage
June 5, 2006
Monday, June 5th, 2006
“When I lost my arm, I thought, ‘That’s the end of my life,'” says Muctar Jalloh.
“My goals had been to attend school and to write. Sometimes I would think, ‘I don’t think it...
Internal Riches
May 31, 2006
Anita J. Raizman will never forget the day when, on her way to work at Project Ore, a kosher food bank, she saw someone abusing a homeless woman.
“I was coming to work here, and there was a black girl wrapped up in cardboard, sleeping by...