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Finding My Way Back: Shlomo’s Story

I was an extremely creative child. I was a big reader. I would paint, draw pictures and write short stories…

ISRAEL

On Sabbatical: A Rabbi’s Journal

In a series of weekly e-mails that Rabbi Steven Pruzansky sent to members of his shul while living in Modiin,…

PEOPLE

Is There a Rabbi on the Base? The Life of a Jewish Army Chaplain

In 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, Chaplain (Colonel) Sanford Dresin, having just received semichah from Yeshivas Chasam…

PEOPLE

Confessions of an Army Wife

Writer Mindy Salazar spoke with Sarai Kashnow about the challenges of being a military spouse, the “toughest job in the…

PEOPLE

Better Than an Agent

If God ever needed a PR person to handle the foreign account, He found it in Binyamin Jolkovsky. We all…

ISRAEL

Rabbi Mordechai Piron: Israel’s Rabbi on the Front lines

General Mordechai Piron fought in four Israeli wars without a grenade, M-16 or Uzi. Armed with a holy sefer Torah…

PEOPLE

“She Might Have Been a Rebbe…” An Uncle’s Hesped for Judith Young

Still staggering from the trauma of the dreadful news of the demise of my niece, Judy Young, I find myself…

ISRAEL

Meeting the Demands of Shemittah: Israeli Farmer Ariel Porat

It’s that time of year again in the Jewish State. An entire industry has shut down, workers are refraining from…

ISRAEL

A Life Changed

On Motzei Shabbat, March 9, 2002, just after 10:30 PM, a suicide bomber entered Jerusalem’s bustling Café Moment and detonated…

FAITH

A Woman’s Faith

In his classic opus To Be a Jew, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin poses a familiar rhetorical query most succinctly: “If…

PEOPLE

A Jew in Navajo Country: A Journey of Faith

The mountainous back road leading to the sheep ranch of Sara and Ted Yazzie on Navajo tribal land near Chinle,…

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