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During its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, the East Bronx was a dynamic Torah-based community with shuls and yeshivos galore

My father was a man of his word, and everyone knew it

I wondered if it was time to take on something I had an aversion to — physical exercise

I began to look at the people she was helping: people who were willing to give up their liberty to live as religious Jews

Years ago, you crossed paths, and something changed. Her hands warmed your essence, left an imprint upon your soul. 7 writers sought out the women who changed them

She’ll deny it, but it was always an imbalanced relationship. Chaya was the mashpia and I was the mekabel