by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
I was not looking forward to interviewing Dr. Rachamim Melamed-Cohen, Israel’s most famous terminally ill patient. The thought of the five-hour round-trip by bus, train and taxi to Jerusalem from my home in northern Israel was daunting, and I was reluctant in...
by Richard Greenberg | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
My friend Yoni (a pseudonym) is a ba’al teshuvah, a newly observant Jew. He tells this story: He was meeting an old friend in a restaurant, a non-kosher establishment — in Texas, no less. (Although Yoni was there to meet, not eat.) Like some Orthodox Jews,...
by Zev Roth | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
When Cesar Kaskel first saw the notice, he likely rubbed his eyes. In a daze, he probably ran home to his family. One look at him and his wife would have realized that there was something dreadfully wrong. “Why, what is it? What happened?” she surely...
by Rabbi Daniel Freitag | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Ok. I’m about to reveal my age, so hold your breath. Well, it’s not so much my age that will strike you, it’s the stuff that I was into as a teen that will surprise you, one way or the other. To some people it will seem a bit strange that the...
by Karen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
It gives me mixed emotions to write this story. In a recent Dvar Torah (Lifeline, Vayishlach), Rabbi Yaakov Menken described a father talking of his daughter’s predicament in a marriage. I thought he was writing about me, because, lo and behold, the exact same...
