A few years ago my friend and her husband were dealing with financial crises. They lost their business during Hurricane Sandy.  After 6 months of

Yoav, a young  IDF (Israeli Defense Force) soldier was stationed in the city of Chevron. Suddenly, he was shot by an Arab sniper and left for dead.

On a cold winter morning at a subway station in Washington, a man began to play his violin.  During the next 45 minutes he played six musical

I loved my grandfather Semyon (Shimon) very much.  He and my beloved grandmother Anna helped to raise me and were a huge part of my

A Rabbi in Long Island was once approached by a young man to have kaddish recited for his recently departed father (Kaddish is a memorial prayer that brings merit

Private Stephen Winneger was on patrol one night during WWII when he saw a figure running through a field. He shouted, “Halt or I’ll shoot.” The figure

Gary was a boy in a Jewish elementary school in Pittsburgh who was known throughout the school as a big behavior problem. Year after year,

Dvir Aminolav was the first Israeli soldier killed in the 2008 Gaza War. His mother Dalya missed Dvir, terribly. One night before she went to

One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a