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Pat Quinn Was the ALS Advocate Behind the Multimillion Dollar Ice Bucket Challenge
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Taylor Fuqua
ALS.org
After a seven-year-long battle with ALS, Pat Quinn, one of the co-founders of the viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, died on Sunday. He was 37 years old. “Pat fought ALS with positivity and bravery and inspired all around him. Those of us who knew him are devastated but grateful for all he did to advance…
Farewell Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, a Man Whose Heart Never Stopped Giving
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Yechiel Eckstein died suddenly on Monday, February 11, 2019, in his home in Jerusalem. The 67 year old rabbi was best known for founding the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ). Rabbi Eckstein was inspired to start the group by God’s promise to bless those who bless Israel in Genesis 12:3. In order to…
Remembering Dorothy Cotton: Civil Rights Icon and MLK Confidant
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
Dorothy Cotton, a civil rights leader who worked with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., has passed away at the age of 88. She had been battling illness recently and died in her retirement home in Ithaca, New York on Sunday, June 10, 2018. Cotton first met King in 1960 when he was preaching at her…
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