Shul of My Youth
Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, never gave up. Week after week he called every single person in the kehillah, exhorting them to come Shabbat morning. Soon his efforts began to pay off, and we had a regular minyan.
Shul of My Youth
In 1948, for parnassah reasons, my parents moved to Spring Valley, Illinois, a hamlet about 100 miles southwest of Chicago in the center of coal country
Shul of My Youth
How does one learn courage and dedication from people who eat treif and can’t read a pasuk of Chumash? The synagogue where I grew up taught me the answer