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Street Smarts
Love of the land has been infused in Shuki’s blood since birth; he’s the right man for our challenge

By Ariella Schiller

Street Smarts
“‘What are you doing in Tel Aviv with no money?’ I asked him. I have strong intuition, so I knew this fellow needed a little hadrachah, not just a ride

By Rachel Ginsberg

Street Smarts
My driver thought for a minute, then pulled out his phone and called a boy from Los Angeles and announced that he had a girl for him

By Sandy Eller

Street Smarts
“Do your students speak to you about yahadut, about Judaism? Do they discuss their questions and doubts?”

By Rabbi Akiva Fox

Street Smarts
My wife and I got into the taxi expecting a trip across the holy city, but instead we got a trip through a seminal moment of Jewish history

By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Street Smarts
“Do you know whose briefcase this is?!” he asked the driver. “Rabbi Hershel Schachter is the Baba Sali of American Ashkenazim!”

By Sandy Eller

Street Smarts
I marveled at the hashgachah that had brought this driver back to Tel Aviv that day, and had brought me to his taxi

By Faigy Gold

Street Smarts
The driver told me that he eventually discovered that the wall was the Kotel, and he learned what it was and what it represented

By Margie Pensak

Step 1
Today they’re household names, but it started with a leap of faith: “When you’re able to give them words for their pain and help them heal, you’re fulfilling the mitzvah of hashav ...

By Dr. David Pelcovitz

Step 1
Today they’re household names, but it started with a leap of faith: “I wanted to be an artist, but not a starving one. Could I pursue my creative dreams, while fulfilling my respo ...

By Rabbi Yonah Weinrib

Step 1
Today they’re household names, but it started with a leap of faith: "Rabbi Noach Weinberg was always excited about using technology for kiruv, and he wanted to make this happen"

By Rabbi Shraga Simmons

Slices of Life
It became our place to get away from Brooklyn on summer Sundays and the occasional weeknight

By Barbara Bensoussan

Slices of Life
Mrs. Drukatz’s pudding was not mere pudding; it held a story

By C.S. Teitelbaum