Human Interest

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

Every little girl dreams of being a queen in her own palace. One day in India, I tripped into my childhood fantasy.

by Chana (Jenny) Weisberg

All Jews have a still small voice inside of them that says, "I am a Jew."

by Renee Chernin

Sometimes the way to a man's soul is through his stomach.

by Yael Mermelstein

When God performs miracles for us, what should we do in return?

by Rabbi Irwin Katsof

What happens when a Jew who is a slave to creature comforts finds himself on Rosh Hashana in Uman, Ukraine, with 30,000 Chassidim and no hot running water?

by Ruchama Feuerman

After ten years, Jerusalem had yielded no career and no man. It was time to go to the city of intense dating.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

In shark-infested waters, their only life raft was reassuring words.

by Kim Schneiderman

Death is like a tsunami, threatening to sweep away everything in its path.

by Batsheva Hirschman Frankel

My journey from "plain" Susan to "exotic" Batsheva.

by Cindy Johannsen

My conversion to Judaism.

by Jon Perrin

My first experience helping to prepare the body of a deceased person for his funeral.

by Rachel P.

How can I say goodbye when I never even had the chance to really say hello?

As a cancer survivor, I wanted to wear a badge

My spiritual journey of a thousand miles began with a single click.

by Michal Batya Evenari

My long road to becoming Jewish.

by Joe Velarde

"Get the Spanish boy, and hurry." That was me.

by Adam Greenman

My kind of position. No pressure, no embarrassing errors, and no one gets hurt.

by Ellen Willis

A groundbreaking chronicle of spiritual search, originally published in Rolling Stone magazine, April 1977.

by Sarah Shapiro

When I first heard "the word" in my hometown.

by Rabbi Shmuel Burstein

In 1942, Pierre, a French Jew, abandoned God. Then the Six Day War happened.

by Ellen Willis

A groundbreaking chronicle of spiritual search, originally published in Rolling Stone magazine, April 1977.

by Adina Hershberg

The cancer could not stop her from caring for and inspiring others.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

The lessons of Passover embodied in one woman's life.

by Ayelet

It all started with playing a dead body on an episode of one of the highest-rated series.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

A yeshiva student's heroic choice.

by Rabbi Irwin Katsof

God had some other plans for me that day besides watching TV and stuffing myself with popcorn.

by Bina Ester Botwinik and Jack Botwinik

Batya Feigenbaum can barely walk, but she sure can soar.

by Bayla Sheva Brenner

Football champion Alan Veingrad is still making all the right moves.

by Mimi Meyers

I was the only Jewish child in the auditorium, and sometimes felt I was the only Jewish girl in the entire world.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

Our surprise direct line.

by Gerald Kane

Without warning, anorexia kidnapped my 15-year-old daughter.

Seven years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

by Dina Bar-Tov

After my husband died, it was my youngest daughter who taught me to embrace life again.

by Gideon Silverstone

After 20 years of story telling, the realization hits that it was at someone else's expense.

by Sarah Shapiro

I wished that somehow they had known how to make me feel included, that cold and rainy Sukkot night, rather than ostracized.

by Alexander Landa

One soldier's battle for life.

by Chana (Jenny) Weisberg

One wandering Jew comes home.

by Chana (Jenny) Weisberg

Despite my sincere desire to save the world, I never managed to move past rhetoric and idealism to meaningful action. Then I started learning about Judaism.

by Brenda Yablon

My son was becoming religious, and I wondered where did I go wrong?

by Yitta Halberstam

The extraordinary metamorphosis of Hitler's nephew's grandson.

by Malka Shain

I was raised a "traditional" Jew. Here's why I gave it up.

by Brad Fisher

My one-year-old daughter was recently diagnosed with a terminal genetic disorder.

by Malka Winner

She was unusual and the kids knew it. The time has come to ask her forgiveness.

Looking back on my most difficult year.

by Yael Mermelstein

There are pivotal moments in life when we catch a glimmer of what lies deep within us.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

Climbing the ladder of spiritual attainment.

For three generations, people assumed we weren't Christian, but Jewish. Was there a Jewish connection in my family hidden in the past?

by Dana Geller

Time was not on my grandfather's side. But I believed that God was. And He gave me the perfect antidote.

by Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

The dramatic retrieval of a long-lost family heirloom.