Growing up in the former Soviet Union, like many fellow citizens, we spent our summers at a dacha—a small primitive house outside the city where

“A righteous man falls down seven times and gets up.” — King Solomon1 Judaism defines a righteous individual as one who perseveres and transforms his

In the spring of 1990, my always proactive grandmother, Zelda, was bargaining in Yiddish at the cash register of the local supermarket in Philadelphia for