Orphanage Success Story: Manna Worldwide - Lifesong

There are 143 million orphans around the world. Four times the size of Canada. This is our future global generation. ""Today there are 143 million orphans around the world,” says Lifesong vice president Andy...

Orphan of slain rabbi in Mumbai heads to Israel

The cries of little Moshe Holtzberg wounded hearts Monday at a tearful memorial for his parents in Mumbai, India.  "Ima, Ima, Ima!" he wailed, using the Hebrew word for mother, clutching a toy basketball...

China's Economic Orphans

“State Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life…”U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (ratified by China in 1991)Human Rights Watch has reported overall annual mortality...

A Chinese Orphan Gets Her Bat Mitzvah

What I find particularly awesome about this is that, traditionally, one is only Jewish if one's birth mother is Jewish. That this congregation including adoptive mothers is a very important precedent."Of the 613 laws in the Torah, the one that appears most often is the...

Desperate plight of Nepal 'slave girls'

This is a sad article about the near-slavery or, more appropriately, indentured servitude, that many Nepali girls find themselves sucked in to. The regions of remote Western Nepal - which I had the opportunity to...

Will Madam Justice Brown Say Yes To Justice?

"Betty Krawczyk~ Speaking for myself, I insist on being treated like a common criminal, with access to the safe guards the criminal code provide and not cast out into the legal limbo of contempt of court that...

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...

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