Yosef Waslow’s mother was Jewish and white. His father was Black and had been raised in a Baptist home. Growing up in Logan, a North

Every act of saving a life starts somewhere. For Aviva, it started with an ad she almost ignored. After a long day with her young

Dr. Naomi Vilko has spent nearly half a century helping people heal from trauma. Since beginning her career in psychiatry in 1978, she has treated

When Mark Idisis arrived in the United States on July 4, 1990, he stepped off the plane into a nation celebrating Independence Day. Fireworks lit the

Known as the Synagogue of the American Revolution, Congregation Mikveh Israel has stood at the heart of American Jewish history since its founding in 1740. As

Born in 1924, Pearl Hinda Nagel endured unimaginable suffering. She lost her father as a child and her mother in the Lodz Ghetto. She survived

Rivka and her husband, Arye Leib, were born in Moscow into typical Soviet Jewish families. They knew very little about their Jewish heritage, but neither did

Helena Swerdlik, originally Kitenkorn, was born on October 20, 1935, in Lublin, Poland, into a modest Jewish home filled with faith, kindness, and the rhythms of

Rachel Leah Fry was just a child when her mother converted to Christianity. Many decades later, she connected with Rabbi Yosef and Bina Goldwasser, her local Chabad emissaries in Mobile, Alabama, and started

Boris Trost, now in his 90s, was born in Ribnitz (Rîbnița), Moldova, then part of the Soviet Union. His father, a shoemaker, worked hard to