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The Power of Words

The whole of Jerusalem was in an uproar! A well-known man, a member of the Belzer Chasidic sect, and his wife had just given birth to

The Holocaust and Tefillin: A Story

This is the story of Rabbi Eliezer Silver and congregant.Rabbi Silver convened an emergency meeting in November 1939 in New York City, where the Vaad

Performance of a Lifetime

My name is Mildred Hondorf. I am a music teacher from Des Moines, Iowa. I’ve given piano lessons for over 30 years. I’ve never had

Revelation at West Point

In 1974, Rabbi Asher Wade, a US Army chaplain, befriended a Jewish American officer named Stuart. Stuart did not strike him as being a religious

Pork that Wakes the Soul

Joe was a very successful Israeli. A son of holocaust survivors, he rose from a childhood of poverty, and by the mid 1980s, built up

Another Chance

Until a few years ago, I didn’t take anything very seriously. I had graduated from jewish high school and didn’t want to go to college right