“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” — Eleanor Roosevelt Born in Saratov, Russia, during the Communist regime, I knew

In the days of communism’s fierce grip on the Soviet Union, there lived a chassidic Jew named Reb Mendel Futerfas. Reb Mendel repeatedly put his

This story was shared with me in confidence. The author asked that her name not be used. Yet the miracle of these events needs to