For weeks before October 7th, Moran Stela Yanai kept getting warnings she couldn’t explain. Then came Nova, a kidnapping, and 54 days of holding on to faith in Gaza.
A federal judge sentenced a young woman with an addiction to 18 months. What he told her in that courtroom stayed with her for years and reshaped her future.
A way out of Nazi Germany came with a catch: work on the Sabbath. A rabbi approved, on one condition, sealed with a handshake my grandfather would never forget.
A soldier ran 8 miles in wet clothes to join the fight. A mother drew terrorists away from her child. David Kramer sees ancient Jewish heroes living again.
A neon orange lunch ticket exposed my family's poverty to my whole school. Decades later, it taught me the real meaning of privacy, trust, and holding someone else's secret.
He saw two corpses on Everest and nearly lost his fingers to frostbite. At 56, this is what Eitan Aizenshtein learned about faith and survival at the top of the world.
Tracey was 16 when a stranger knocked on her door selling alarm systems. She had no idea he'd become her husband – or that she'd spend decades fighting for his life.
Two years ago, a sniper's bullet nearly killed me. Today, I run a fitness program for Jews who want to get stronger without leaving their values at the door.
The Hebrew word for dog, kelev, hides two words inside: kol lev, a whole heart. A lifetime of dogs taught me, an anxious kid from a lonely home, what that means.
Claire Blumenthal Zeitler was adopted, Jewish, and — she would later discover — the daughter of an Arab prince. What followed was ten years of searching for her authentic identity.
Why Hating Jews Feels So Good
