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1/09/19
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JUF News: Hope and humor: Life with ALS

By JCC Chicago

Jenni Berebitsky shares the strength she has found through living with ALS in a new documentary. When Dr. Jenni Berebitsky sat down with her neurologist in 2009, her hands were shaking with more than pre-diagnosis nerves. For quite some time, she had been experiencing muscle spasms and tremors that now made their way all the way to her tongue.

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