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

From memories of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis … we suffered in Bergen-Belsen as Rosh Hashanah drew near and we had no shofar, no machzor. The rabbis held

My daughter was born with a chronic illness, which was unfortunately transmitted through me during pregnancy. As a consequence, starting from the age of 6 months old,

Bud Marshall kept a small box in his bedroom where he kept several important & sentimental mementos including the medals he had earned for his