by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
It wasn’t the most exciting or terrifying tale of the war years I had ever heard, or the saddest or the most shocking. But somehow it was the most moving one. The man who recounted it had spent the war years, his teenage years, in the chilling vastness of the...
by Hindel Swerdlov | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
“May the Schwartz be with you”, my father always says. Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz, known to all as “Schwartzee,” is not your typical Rabbi. And my mother Olivia, a health food guru, is not your typical Rebbetzin. Together they run the Chai Center,...
by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetsky | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
How do you capture the essence of an elderly man, stricken with a devastating and, ultimately, fatal disease, who insists on attending a fundraising event, having to be brought by ambulance and stretcher? With every last ounce of his failing strength he dressed in his...
by Eric Simon | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
My friends and relatives all want to know about the light bulb in my refrigerator. A few months ago, our family decided to try being shomer Shabbat, or Sabbath-observant. It made an immediate, and remarkable, difference in our lives, which had become something of a...
by Kenneth M. Prager | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
By Kenneth M.Prager, M.D. Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York When I was an elementary school student in yeshiva – a Jewish parochial school with both religious and secular studies – my classmates and I used to find amusing a sign that was...
