Human Interest

by Rabbi Eli Deutsch

Daniel expected his Star of David tattoo to provoke a physical struggle with others. Instead it provoked a spiritual struggle within himself.

by Andrew Friedman

Ten years ago Asael Shabo lost his mother, three siblings and a leg to a terrorist. Now he’s on course to the 2016 Olympics.

by Binyamin Rose

Will Recant, son of Holocaust survivors, is one of the world’s top experts in emergency relief and disaster assistance programs.

by Rabbi Gavriel Horan

Out of the blue, Efryim Shore became paralyzed from the neck down.

by Leah Schiermeyer

How did a Baptist, country girl like me, raised in the Bible Belt, become an observant Jew?

by Renee Ghert-Zand

The ‘Big Bang Theory’ star speaks frankly about her Jewish identity.

by Rabbi Kevin S. Bemel

How Judaism informed my work as a deployed Navy Chaplain.

by Yehudis Green

She first met him in the ghettos. Now she had only a few minutes before he’d finally reach her.

by Danny Verbov

One child’s determination and the kindness of a stranger. A true story.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

One Jew's miraculous story.

by Leah Cohen

My childhood view of a shattered, melodious life.

by Rabbi Yehuda Heimowitz

Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel refused to be enslaved by his debilitating disease.

by Yaacov Haber

A close student explains why the Jewish world mourns this great rabbi.

by Joseph Bornstein

How I discovered the keys to social activism in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Jerusalem.

by Gabriel Ethans

Cremating my mother was the worst decision I ever made. How could I make it up to her?

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

The stranger-than-fiction true story of Swami Vijayananda.

by Debbie Shapiro, who interviewed the subject

A past trauma was silently wreaking havoc on my life.

by Tehilla Vanfossen

Medication only removed the pain; attaining happiness was up to me.

by Shani Silverstein

Lighting the menorah after my nervous breakdown.

by Aish.com staff

Revisiting the most popular articles and videos of the year.

by Richard Marcus

It was 1959, and it was me, a Jewish kid in elementary school, against Gagliano, Stamingo and O’Mera. What chance did I have?

by Mosab Hassan Yousef

The remarkable story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, who went from Hamas to the Mossad.

by Mindy Rubenstein

Living an observant life is beautiful and it needs to be expressed in an atmosphere of love and respect.

by Sam Glaser

I grew up with the four H's: Holy Land, Holocaust, Hebrew and Holidays. But it was the fifth H that changed my life.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

Appreciating more with less.

by Yael Zoldan M.A.

In that temporary shack we felt our permanence.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

This Rosh Hashanah, electrify your life with purpose.

by Danica Ruhalter

I don’t want to be stereotyped as the girl who lost her dad in 9/11.

by Rea Bochner

Elijah the Prophet showed me what it means to be a Jewish princess.

by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff

I'll never forget the day we found out my father had cancer.

by Regis and Kelly

Nancy and Howard Kleinberg's love story is nothing short of a miracle.

by Mordechai I. Twersky

A mass grave, 70 years later.

by Michal Eisikowitz

Michal Schick and her empire of kindness.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

The doctor told me I had a fatal disease, and at age 77 I realized I'm actually going to die.

by Ryan Shaughnessy

What was I, an unaffiliated Jew with a Catholic father, doing on a Jewish entrepreneurial program hosted by Orthodox Jews?

by Deborah Masel

A Torah scholar who perished in the Holocaust reveals the meaning of spiritual victory to a woman dying from cancer.

by Rabbi Ephraim Shore

Our son nearly died in a car accident. Today we are witnessing the miracle of his recovery.

by Richard Rabkin

I have a message for my Korean exchange student, 20 years in the making.

by Rabbi Yaakov Salomon

My day in traffic court.

by Rochel Feld

My new neighbor wanted nothing to do with religious Jews.

by Keegan Wilcox

A short Holocaust film, Grand Prize Winner of the Philips "Tell It Your Way" competition.

by Rabbi Ephraim Shore

It was 10 pm when we got the call: "Your son was in a car accident. The situation is very serious. Come to the hospital immediately."

by Galia Berry

In commemoration of U.S. Memorial Day, a letter from an American Jewish soldier to his parents.

by Judith Abrahams

Giving a stranger my kidney was one of my life's most rewarding experiences.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

How the Jewish Sabbath transformed my life.

by TED Talks and Ric Elias

Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River.

by Alan Shlomo Veingrad

A Super Bowl champion shares inspiration from the Haggadah.

by Marnie Winston-Macauley

Sometimes love can create miracles.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

I'll never forget the moment I was just a prop used in a larger, cosmic drama.