Bubby Memories // Make a difference to the ones you love
Then I was growing up, I was always envious of my friends who had grandparents who were part of their lives. They would talk...
Women to Remember: Remembering Mrs. Aliza Grund, a”h
"If you need something to get done, you’d best ask a busy person to do it.”
This adage is especially apropos when describing Mrs. Aliza...
Bringing Avi Home // An eight-year-old heimishe boy goes missing in a rough section...
As it had done for years, on the first Saturday of September 2017, the city of Antwerp was celebrating its liberation from the Nazis...
In a Parent’s Embrace // Slovie Jungreis Wolff talks about the foundation...
Q: Your mother, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, had a mission that was about kiruv and bringing people closer to Yiddishkeit. She really understood interpersonal relationships...
Women to Know: Rivka Goldblatt
A genealogist in her 20s sounds like an oxymoron. After all, doesn’t the word evoke a white-bearded bespectacled professor surrounded by dusty books and...
At Death’s Door // An unplanned journey to an organ trans-plant center saves her...
The ordeal began innocuously enough. A young woman, on vacation in a foreign country suddenly begins feeling unwell. She goes to a local urgent...
Oomie’s Machsan // One grandmother’s tragic experience turns into a blessing.
We were thrilled when our daughter, Shoshana, became engaged to a wonderful young man named Yitzi. Their engagement period, however, was not an easy...
Take the First Step
One Sunday morning, Yaakov Nourollah returned to his car and found it ransacked. Anything of value he had left inside was gone—including his tefillin....
On Again, Off Again, On Again // Are Human Hair Sheitels kosher?
In the city of Tirupati on top of a hill sits the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, one of the pilgrimage sites for Hindus. Early in...
Going Back Behind the Iron Curtain
Ela Verzub and I initially connect via email. She sends me her phone number and we schedule an interview. We are seven time zones...
