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After my father died, we continued to grow together.
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I never understood exactly how a person could love all of his fellow Jews until I started wearing my kippah all the time.
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Hitching a holy express ride at the Western Wall.
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Mikvah and motherhood: Frankly, I never thought I'd enter either institution.
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Through life -- and death -- a young mother teaches us to appreciate the grand eternal plan.
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Mikey's story is not one of terrible suffering, but of faith and triumph.
Learning to see life through the eyes of a poet.
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I hadn't thought much of Michael in the last three years. Until a few weeks ago when I heard that he had died of a sudden heart attack.
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Death has never been an infrequent occurrence. But I wasn't in the know.
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I could not believe her luck. She had a wheelchair, she was sick and to top it all off, she had been in the hospital with all those presents
The Florida Marlins were so much fun to watch because something came from nothing.
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With his team's miraculous World Series performance on the field, one young man marvels at his own miraculous feat.
How can we get free of the petty tyrannies of our own female vanity?
Decades of hurt and strain finally give way to understanding and reconciliation.
by Richard Rabkin
I used to think that Jewish unity meant all of us being the same. Naphtali showed me otherwise.
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How the Jewish people came together to save a special woman.
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I had indispensable training in becoming an observant Jew: the U.S. Marines.
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Fighting cancer with a combination of sprouts, prayer and traditional medicine.
A Southern Baptist, en route to conversion, talks about God and life in the U.S. Navy.
An accomplished woman's journey to Jewish tradition takes a 15-year tour through India and its ashrams.
The doctors told me my grandmother was essentially dead. But she seemed too feisty to just disappear into a coma. My instincts told me: Talk to her!
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A surrealistic car crash triggers an uncanny string of events.
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A true "Jewish" story from the Titanic's ill-fated voyage.
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I had no idea what was happening to me. I only knew that the worst thing in the world was to be conscious.
by Rabbi Asher Resnick
My daughter's battle with leukemia taught me how to find consolation even in the midst of terrible pain.
by Dr. James David Weiss
My father took a leading role in the slaughter of Jews. Was our family tainted with evil?
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The daughter of an Arab warrior tells her tale.
by Rabbi Pinchas Winston
Early morning in a birthing hospital, amid the joyous sound of a baby's first cry, my wife gave birth to silence.
Something big had happened that I didn't want to know about. My history had shoved itself into my face, and I couldn't make it disappear.
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My mother, a Holocaust survivor, always said, "You can be a Jew on the inside, but not on the outside." It was just too risky.
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There is no limit to how much love and compassion can emanate from one human heart.
An incredible Jerusalem family brings the beauty of Shabbat to the world.
God has many ways to communicate with us. It's the unexpected ones we remember forever.
In the midst of the most sacred of my bachelor rituals – pizza and Monday Night Football – a knock on the door ended up changing my life.
Sometimes great people do write back.
God is always communicating with us. Sometimes it takes a miracle for us to get the message.
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