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Faigie Heiman is an accomplished short story and essay writer, author of a popular memoir “Girl For Sale,” formerly an Olam Yehudi columnist at The Jewish Press. Born and raised in Williamsburg, she made her home in Israel 63 years ago.
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I walk the freshly showered streets of Beit Shemesh and I think of spring. I think of spring in Jerusalem where I lived for 62 years. I think of you, Adar, when joy will increase; when this war, Iron Swords, will be over; when I hope something new will be ready to debut.
There was another side to the man who devoted the best years of his life to educating Torah-observant Jewish youngsters and preparing them for the future. That was his love, his dream, and his deep desire to enter the land of Israel.
I was there! I was in Bnei Brak. Not on Thursday evening, not at the raucous, red-shirted, “progressive” women’s demonstration. I was in Bnei Brak on the Sunday before...
Too many parts of The United States are under sway to a far-left, almost Marxist, ideology, the foundation for a crumbling empire. Is that where America is headed?
Parshat Lech Lecha, Vayera, and Chayei Sarah are the Torah portions of personal departure from America, and our arrival in Eretz Yisrael.
We must have been carefree and crazy to attempt to make Pesach on our own. We were both from close-knit observant families, all of whom were in America in 1961.
New beginnings are not only housing construction, sidewalk renewal, or gas flow.
The trauma of our son-father kidney transplant has never faded from my memory.
My good fortune was grandparents and “greats,” and an uncle who had the vision and courage to leave Europe after World War I. Even if it wasn’t vision, surely it was courage.
I know that Elul, September, is not all black. There are many happy events that have taken place in our family during this month...
“Whether there was ever any doubt about the accuracy, the wisdom, the propriety of U.S. President Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, I certainly think this lays all doubts to rest,” American Ambassador David Friedman proclaimed at the event.
Listen Faigie, I had the same dream three times. I dreamed that I owe you money. Three times is a chazaka!
I remember her, a teacher who loved teaching, a teacher who inspired her students, and students who loved and admired their teacher in return.
Telling the story – the miracle story of the Six Day War – is my duty.
I do my best to continue what was important to him, and what has become important for me - to count, and to remember.
History has some of the most tragic events and deaths listed for the month of Adar, events that reach as far back as the great scholarly houses of Hillel and Shammai...
The key for the skies to open and rain down heavenly blessing rests in the hands of the Almighty.
Tevet is not only a month of tea and toast for our family. It harbors honey and jam, sweet days, birthdays that, Baruch Hashem, are celebrated every year.
How many traditions do we take with us when we leave home?
This last good-bye was not like any previous good-byes, when my heart and my head were not always in sync, and the lump in my throat turned to tears as the plane took off.
Unlike Goldberg, most Israelis saw the inauguration as a dramatic, yet modest affair, fulfillment of America’s promise as per the U.S. Congressional law passed in 1995.
The State of Israel was declared in 1948. I was seven years old. I didn’t know or understand what a State was, or what it meant for Jews. ... Most American Jews were grateful for President Truman’s recognition of the new State, yet were concerned.
Which things in our home are not futile, which things would I never choose to part from?
And then the world learned about Nechama Novak Spiegel.
How does one describe an historic moment of excruciating joy that defies reality?
Agnon's words at the Nobel ceremony resonated for a proud observant Jew embracing a momentous occasion.
We've got to push Bibi into facing the world, and declare that we are here to stay, all over Israel and the West Bank and declare sovereignty over lands where we live and work
“When Adar enters, joy is increased.” What happens when tragedy strikes in the month of Adar?
Aunt Hench is a natural charmer. A people person, spunky and quick as only someone small as a light bulb can be, and wherever she is, she is a bright star.
The president's message was one of living peacefully in a Jewish and democratic state, Jews of all stripes unified as brothers, with Arabs or citizens of other religions.
Water: a fluid with life-giving force, a thin liquid even a trickle of which can assure survival. Crops, fields, land, people – we all need water. We need water for growth, for purity, for beauty, for subsistence. What do we do when water sources are depleted? We have learned not to behave like the young […]
Beautiful Site, Joy of all the Earth; two of the seventy names provided for Jerusalem.
Beautiful Site, Joy of all the Earth; two of the seventy names provided for Jerusalem.
At age 104, my mother was still concerned about her relationship with Hashem.
Erev Yom Ha’Atzmaut, 2012: As I return from a visit to my elderly mother in the northern part of Jerusalem, the bus winds its way through ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. The stone buildings along the route are colorless shades of sand and grey, some new, some old and blackened with age. Men and women rush through busy streets, expressions of pain and joy, helpless and hopeful looks defining their faces.
