Writer: Diana Bletter

Diana Bletter is the author of books including A Remarkable Kindness and The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women, a National Jewish Book Award nominee. A graduate of Cornell University and resident of Israel since 1991, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Commentary and many other publications.

The 21-year-old devoted to trash talk

Nigerian-Israeli Sharona Shnayder founded a global movement to pick up trash and is now diving into a mind-boggling range of environmental activities in an effort to ‘convince people to care.’