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How Those Suffering from Cancer Become ‘Me’ at Camp Simcha

Tevel Argental (right) and her counselor at Camp Simcha. Credit: Chai Lifeline.

Tevel Argental (right) and her counselor at Camp Simcha. Credit: Chai Lifeline.

Sixteen-year-old Tevel Argental, from the northern Israeli town of Yokneam, has been battling brain cancer since she was two years old. She has undergone multiple surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments that have allowed her to live as best as possible under the difficult circumstances. At the same time, Tevel has been coming to grips with the death of her father, who died of a heart attack three years ago.

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Posted by Josh Hasten in Jewish News Syndicate

NBA’s ‘Freedom’ Spreads Message of Peace through Sports in Israel

Enes Kanter Freedom walks to the Western Wall in Israel, there to help train kids at a youth basketball camp in Israel, August 2022. Photo by Josh Hasten. Credit: Bnai Zion.

Enes Kanter Freedom walks to the Western Wall in Israel, there to help train kids at a youth basketball camp in Israel, August 2022. Photo by Josh Hasten. Credit: Bnai Zion.

“If you could change anything in this world, what would it be?” asked NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, while seated among 30 Jewish, Christian and Muslim, children during a break in the action at a youth basketball camp he was helping to run this week at the YMCA in Jerusalem.

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Posted by Josh Hasten in Jewish News Syndicate