In It Together: A Covid Kallah uses her situation to reach out to other...
The was a blissful kallah, preparing to get married at the end of May in a traditional wedding hall. And then COVID-19 upended her...
When the Sky Opened in Curacao: A modern day miracle of rainfall
If you look at a map of South America and scan its northern coastline you’ll spot Curaçao, a small dot slightly northwest of Caracas...
The Best We Can Do
This past Pesach, like so many others, Zale Newman found himself making a Seder under impossible circumstances. His wife, Rochel, was in the ICU...
Taming The Monster: My diabetes had been under control for years—but what was this?
My diabetes was never really a big deal. I was diagnosed at the age of eight, when my parents became concerned that I was...
Two Little Girls Who Survived: A Majdanek reunion after 74 years
Hello. My name is Chana Zinger. I am phoning you because I am looking for Sara Peri of Givatayim. You don’t know me. I’m...
Shingles: an avoidable misery
Doctor, I feel like my skin is on fire, my flesh is being eaten, and I have thousands of knives beneath the surface jabbing...
A Wedding and a Wheelchair: Where she was heading wasn’t where she ended up
A cup of hot chocolate and a good book. The thought alone was enough to keep Rochie Kaplan* going that cold, rainy Tuesday as she...
Quarantined with Scarlet Fever: My mother’s love 60 years ago carries me through today’s...
The odor of camphor and bleach fills my nostrils as I sit propped up against the headboard of my bed, with numerous pillows behind...
Guardians of the Cave: A Dutch couple takes it upon themselves to maintain the historic...
The Last Jew of Peki’in
After the Churban Beis Hamikdash, the families who survived the starvation and massacres managed to flee to other areas in...
The Architect: We built more than just a model together
It took me six weeks to build the Altneuschul of Prague.
To be fair, I wasn’t working at it alone, and the structure was just...
