Shawn Noblit has a calm, pleasant demeanor — the type of person who puts you at ease. But she’s resolved and organized, too, and capable of taking charge. It’s the perfect combination of traits for the executive director of Hillsdale’s Alpha Omega Care Center, where a day demands everything from office management to mentoring women...
When junior Nainoa Johsens was a “young and reckless” 16-year-old, he found himself thrown to the bottom of the ocean, wrapped in kelp, asking, “Is this it?” Tangled in seaweed and thrashing against the turbulent seawater, Johsens learned a valuable lesson from surfing: respect the power of the ocean and its control over him. “Surfing...
Two men stand on the first car of the train: one waves, the other holds a shovel. Black steam billows out of the engine in a spiraling gray cloud. The second car, securely hinged to the first, carries blocks and blocks of hard black coal. Against a copper background, the name PETRIE is written in...
On Wednesday, the Israeli Knesset passed a bill allowing Aramaic Christians to register for free as their own ethnicity in Israel. Previously, Aramaic Christians had to pay a cumbersome $400 to register in the Israeli state. But now, according to Shadi Khalloul, the founder of the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association, this bill not only makes...
“Wakey wakey!” The first time Jeremy Collins used that phrase during the trip was on the three-hour bus ride from Mount Bental in the Golan Heights to Jerusalem. Though he’s a tour guide in Israel, Collins grew up in Liverpool, England, and many of his phrases are much more British than Israeli, including “swimming costume”...