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Hillel the Scribe Communications

editorial consulting ~ Web content ~ speechwriting
editing ~ feature writing ~ publicity ~ media relations

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2003 gold medal winner for feature writing from the Society of National Association Publications

"World Trade Center Investigation a 'Labor of Love' for Medical Examiner PAs"

themed newsletters

• AARP
• Tennessee Holocaust Commission
• Baltimore synagogue
• Baltimore business consultant

magazine production

• literary journal
• reunion journal
• university program

aviation marketing campaign

• sheriff's department to the rescue
• priests who fly
• tumbling out of bed and into the cockpit
• Florida aero clubs
• corn cob-driven power
• bringing dental care to Mexico
• treating Amish patients in Wisconsin
• scattering loved ones' remains
• saving premature babies
• from food distribution to the Houston Astros
• banner days in the flag business
• parachute testing
• grain warehousing and firefighting
• firefighting and first aid
• boosting a town's economy
• mining from the air
• assisting Hurricane Katrina victims

position papers

• preserving wage-standard laws

politics/diplomacy

• interview with President Clinton
• interview with Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich
• a behind-the-scenes look at
American policymaking
• speechwriters who employ comedy to humanize presidential candidates
• on-site coverage of President Clinton's
visit to Israel and Gaza

relationships

• reunion of once-a-year friends
• nightmares vs. dreams for singles
• ex-spouses who cooperate for
their children's benefit
• an ex-Hamas terrorist and his
Israeli Shin Bet handler
•  mothers bonding over their sons' deaths
• NBA coach cherishes ties with Seattle friends

workplace

•  being laid off
• the pros and cons of working at home
• diversity on the job

industry

• media
• how a nonprofit agency saved a man's life
• aviation
• optometry (product review)

technology

• seniors staying in touch with grandchildren
• technology's use in family research:
    see "genealogy" (in right-hand column)

law

• assessing political asylum claims
• Supreme Court case
• impeachment trial of President Clinton
• Iran-contra trial
• an ex-Hamas terrorist gains political
asylum in the United States

personality profiles

• the tenacity of Rahm Emanuel (President Obama's first chief of staff)
• president of Uruguay
• Chicken Lady of Jerusalem
• lawyer who lost his daughter to terrorism
• traveling saleswoman
• pilot who teaches his son to fly
• artist who commemorates murder victims
• Arlington National Cemetery researcher
• man who gives away books
• Americans adapting to living in Israel
• American diplomat who worked most closely with Israel's late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin
• eccentric U.S. congressman

political essays

• standing up for Israel on Memorial Day and throughout the year

medicine

• preparing astronauts for emergencies in space
• America's leading cancer hospital
• Israeli first-aid products that save
American combat soldiers' lives
• Cleveland Clinic
• the U.S. military's innovations
in treating combat injuries
• alerting medical professionals to detect
and rescue patients who might be "slaves"
• preventing genetic diseases by prenatal testing
• preventing and dealing with breast cancer

national history and military history

• Japanese-American World War II combat unit
• re-enactment of George Washington's funeral
• Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation draft
• tour of Lincoln sites in Kentucky and Illinois
• Vietnam War Memorial's 10th anniversary
• World War II partisan fighters honored
• Arlington Nat'l. Cemetery chaplains memorial

family

• corresponding with grandma
• teaching my son
• genealogy discoveries
• with my sons in Israel during war and peace

business features

• the diner in Barry Levinson's Diner
• product reviews of optometry machines
• Middle East investment
• customer service
• interview: Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
• profile: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown

religion features

• Pope John Paul II's Mass at
Baltimore's Camden Yards
• Christian supporters of Israel
• bar/bat mitzvah ceremonies:
    • bar/bat mitzvah for a special-needs child
    • appropriate gifts for bar/bat mitzvah kids
    • investing gifts with meaning through charity
    • coming-of-age brings with it responsibility

sports

• Omri Casspi of the Sacramento Kings:
the first Israeli to play in the NBA
• 1996 Olympics: spot-news coverage of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park bombing
• 1996 Olympics: daily news and features coverage from Atlanta
• Detroit Lions player shifting career to medicine
• basketball coaching legend Red Auerbach
• Doron Sheffer (NBA's first Israeli draftee)
• Olympics filmmaker Bud Greenspan
• American basketball player dealing
with life abroad: Part I
• American basketball player dealing
with life abroad: Part II
• Baltimore Orioles players bicycling to games
• basketball player Shay Doron of the 2006 champion University of Maryland
• Jerusalem grave of a Philadelphia Phillies fan

education

• a Baltimore private school charging no tuition
• new organizations that help students combat anti-Israel threats on U.S. campuses
• U.S. combat soldier attending rabbinical school
• adult education attracts senior citizens

travel

• India
• Portugal
• a child-friendly visit to Israel
• Washington sites of political scandals
• adventures of a pilot-diplomat

genealogy

• NEW COLUMN (early '12): reuniting families
    • elderly man seeks American cousins
    • woman seeks family of mom's ex-fiancee'
    • reunion of WWII partisan fighters
    • man reprieved from Auschwitz gas chamber
    • identifying children who survived the Shoah
    • could author's cousins be in Argentina?
    • man seeks his almost-stepbrother/sister
    • Lithuanian rescuer meets woman she saved
    • first success story: American cousin found!
    • Slovakian man seeks honor for rescuer-dad
    • an unknown 1941 Cyprus-Israel-Africa trip
• my shocking genealogy discoveries
• technology enables genealogy research: Part I
• technology enables genealogy research: Part II
• international conference on genealogy
• genealogy as an academic pursuit

culture

• Vietnam War Memorial
• a Japanese-American World War II army unit
• New Mexico ethnicities
• Jews of Wyoming
• ethnic shifts on New York's Lower East Side