by Nechama Stampler | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Rachel Bamberger Chalkovsky, affectionately known as Bambi, is a walking Jerusalem legend. The chief midwife at Shaare Zedek Hospital, she has brought over 35,000 babies into the world over the past 40 years, and is now delivering the grandchildren of her first small...
by Vanessa Paloma | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
My foremothers Ana, Rebeca and Ita never knew what effect the light of their candles would have on their descendants. They sailed the ocean from the land of spices and olive oil to the new world of promises, the new world where they hoped they would not be ridden...
by Debbie Maimon | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Brenda’s Story (Names and identifying information have been altered.) A while ago, if someone would have asked me for my life story, I would probably have started off with my childhood in Queens. To go further back than that would mean bringing up my...
by Jeffrey K. Salkin | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Because I am a rabbi, people ask me all sorts of religious and not-so-religious questions. “Rabbi, is my six-year-old child too young to take to his great-grandmother’s funeral?” “Rabbi, do you know a way to make pizza that would be acceptable...
by Tuvia Grossman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
I was thrust into the international limelight when The New York Times and other major media outlets published a photo of me — bloodied and battered — crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified me as a Palestinian victim of...
