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Chanukah Begins December 22, 2019 after nightfall and ends December 30, 2019 after nightfall (This Document contains G-d’s Name, therefore it may NOT be thrown

It’s been 30 years since my family left the former Soviet Union and arrived in the United States, leaving a world that felt familiar and

On Sept. 18, 2008, I was sitting on the lawn of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, watching Mikhail Gorbachev being awarded the highest honor,

“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