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Sean Salai

ssalai@washingtontimes.com

Sean Salai is the general assignment/culture reporter for The Washington Times. A former National desk intern and Metro clerk at The Washington Times, he also has served as a City Hall reporter at the Boca Raton News and as a special contributor at America Media. He can be reached at ssalai@washingtontimes.com.

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Jochen “Jack” Wurfl, 91, is one of just 245,000 survivors of the Holocaust still living. And he’s on a mission to warn young people about the dangers of antisemitism as the Israel-Hamas conflict rages. Photo used with permission from "My Two Lives" by Jochen "Jack" Wurfl and published by Outskirts Press.

WATCH: Holocaust survivor shares story of survival, warns against dangers of antisemitism

Jochen "Jack" Wurfl's story of survival -- including a stint in the Hitler Youth as a young boy trying to hide his Jewish heritage -- is detailed in his recently published autobiography "My Two Lives." Originally written to document for his descendants their family's suffering, Mr. Wurfl hopes the account helps others take antisemitism more seriously in the wake of the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel by Hamas, a Palestinian terror group.

January 24, 2024
Quinn Byrne (right), 5, shops with her mother, Jamie Byrne, at a Learning Express store in Lake Zurich, Ill., on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. For several years, toy companies were focused on pushing out toys that helped kids code and teach hardcore math and science skills. Now, there's a growing movement that embraces a new role for toys: build emotional resiliency among children to address a mental health crisis that worsened during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Experts debate the future of ‘mental toughness’ in child-rearing

Mental health experts are divided over the concept of mental toughness -- bearing down on one's performance in the face of adversity -- as an ideal for raising children, with some pushing to resurrect the term and others clamoring to bury it permanently.

January 1, 2024
Starting wages are advertised on a sign in the window of a Taco Bell in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, May 9, 2022. Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration announced on Thursday, May 12, 2022, that soaring inflation will trigger an automatic increase in California's minimum wage to $15.50 per hour next year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) **FILE**

25 states will hike minimum wage in 2024

Hourly workers in half of the states will see minimum wage increases in 2024, and financial analysts predict the raises will kill more service industry jobs with automation.

December 21, 2023