
It was only after my parents died that I learned more about their horrifying past

His name was Gamal Abdul Nasser. I’d never heard of him before, but he was about to destroy my perfect childhood world

A final conversation with the Gaavad, Rav Yitzchok Tovia Weiss

I was just a teenager, but I knew I had to leave Syria. Without a smuggler, could I possibly escape on my own without being caught or shot?

“I’ll teach you what happens to Jews who step into our streets! I’m going to finish you off, right here!”

Battling for survival, she believed she was the sole surviving Jew

The one food associated with a longer lifespan was consumption of different kinds of beans

He displayed loving care to others combined with an unwavering insistence for kavod haTorah

How are we to know what are the things for which we need to repent and mend our ways?

“What does it say about me?” I demanded. What did Bubbe know about me anyway?

“We need to be original for a change. We never come up with anything really different,” Toby remarks