Jeanne Pepper Bernstein is the mother Blaze Bernstein. On January 10, 2018, 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania sophomore Blaze Bernstein was found dead in a park in Orange County, California, eight days after having been reported missing. He was visiting his family in Lake Forest, California, when he was killed. Two days later, one of Blaze's former high school classmates and a member of neo-Nazi terrorist group Atomwaffen Division was arrested and charged with murdering him. Because Blaze was both openly gay and Jewish, authorities declared that he was a victim of a hate crime. You can watch a complete 48 Hours episode on the crime, but our focus with Jeanne was to get to know Blaze and understand the family's effort to honor his memory through the Blaze Bernstein Memorial Fund and a pay-it-forward movement called BlazeItForward.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How the Bernsteins have coped with their loss.
• Jeanne's thoughts on faith in light of Blaze's death.
• How people have tried to make sense of his death in ways that have been painful to the family.
• The ways that Blaze's legacy is living on and how you can participate.

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Connect with Jeanne:

• BlazeBernstein.org
• Blaze Bernstein Memorial Fund
• Blaze Bernstein Obituary
• BlazeItForward (Facebook Group)
• Instagram (Jeanne)
• Twitter (Jeanne)
• Orangewood Foundation
• Blaze Bernstein Murder: Was an Ivy League Student Slain in the Name of Hate? (48 Hours episode)
• PFLAG 

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