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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

Family First Feature
With warmth, charm, and grace, Rebbetzin Chaiky Rubin managed to reach across worlds and foster connection as she brought hundreds of women closer to Torah

By Riki Goldstein

What I Reaped
On Succos, we gather our crops, reflect on our harvest. In life, we gather our experiences, appreciate what we’ve gained

By Faigy Gold

Street Smarts
“I’ll bet this taxi ride we’re having a boy,” I replied without thinking

By Ahron Cohn

What I Reaped
On Succos, we gather our crops, reflect on our harvest. In life, we gather our experiences, appreciate what we’ve gained

By Chaya Leeder

What I Reaped
On Succos, we gather our crops, reflect on our harvest. In life, we gather our experiences, appreciate what we’ve gained

By Cindy Scarr

Calligraphy
And here I was. The start of a new journey, the kind that searched for answers that didn’t exist but that you had to seek out, anyway

By Rikki Ehrlich