Escape From Iran

Do not be afraid to stand for what you believe in. Never compromise your beliefs.

Rachel Hyman was a fun-loving, happy, energetic child. The more active she was, the happier she…

I was in a training class for a new job. One day the teacher mentioned that we had been exposed…

Just like Solomon, Alexander Bolotnikov asked God for wisdom & knowledge. He wanted to get a…

Rabbi Joe Kagan had a beautiful tenor voice. At age 13 he sang at Carnegie Hall. He was very…

Tom Kapusta loved his father. Tom was proud of his career in the military. After learning about…

Conflict, inner turmoil, mental and emotional pain, —we all experience it at one time or…

Rachmonis (the Yiddish word for mercy and pity) I remember coming home from school many times…

A few years ago, in the confusion of transferring multiple pieces of luggage from one plane to…

Donna’s husband suddenly left his family without looking back.

I was searching for something to give my Rabbi and his wife. I loved them very much so I just…

I loved going to my aunt Lilly’s house when I was kid to play with my cousin Al. I also liked…

I was not having a good day. I didn’t feel very well, and I woke up around 4:00 in the morning…

The writer and great thinker Thoreau wrote “most people lead lives of quiet desperation and go…

One of the most beautifully haunting pieces of cantorial music I have ever sung was called A…

As I was growing up I’d always heard about the Lower East Side of New York City. I grew up in…

As I look at my bookshelf . . . for the new generation, a bookshelf, usually made out of wood,…

When Dona was a young girl she was supposed to cook some spinach for her father because he had…