{"id":3,"date":"2017-12-21T12:54:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-05-28T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:01:13","slug":"the-chain-of-goodness-how-dr-dubowsky-brought-two-great-stories-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/the-chain-of-goodness-how-dr-dubowsky-brought-two-great-stories-together\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Chain of Goodness\u201d How Dr. Dubowsky brought two great stories together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/captain-ben-salomon.jpg\" alt=\"Captain Ben Salomon\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/captain-ben-salomon.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/captain-ben-salomon-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/captain-ben-salomon-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just before Memorial Day, I wrote a \u201cNoshes\u201d column item about Capt. Ben Salomon, a Jewish dentist who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2002 for his heroism in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>I noted that in November 2016, the American Friends of Dental Volunteers of Israel presented a special lecture honoring Salomon. The AVI, as the organization is known, is the sister organization of Dental Volunteers for Israel (DVI). Founded by the late Trudi Birger, DVI runs a free clinic for children in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>My column item prompted Dr. Scott Dubowsky of Tenafly, a longtime Jewish Standard subscriber, to email the Standard. He thanked me for the item and told me he is a dentist and the president of AVI. We exchanged further letters and I came to realize that several personal stories, including Dr. Dubowsky\u2019s, intertwined in what I came to think of as a remarkable chain of goodness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com\/the-chain-of-goodness\/\" class=\"more-link button text\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Dr. Scott Dubowsky<\/span> \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Memorial Day, I wrote a \u201cNoshes\u201d column item about Capt. Ben Salomon, a Jewish dentist who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2002 for his heroism in World War II. I noted that in November 2016, the American Friends of Dental Volunteers of Israel presented a special lecture honoring Salomon. 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