Helen Zegerman Schwimmer

And just as he had for so many other souls, Shlomo awakened in Neil "some spark of lost Jewishness."

The Convert and the Gadol Hador

“When you are inexperienced and new to Yiddishkeit you figure, what do I have to lose? I think it’s called chutzpah!” With the honesty and good natured candor that have made her a much sought after lecturer across the Jewish spectrum, African-American convert Ahuvah Gray, recounts the remarkable story of her personal encounter with Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, z”tl.

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We Stopped Traffic On Ocean Parkway

By Helen Zegerman Schwimmer

Picture it, a busy Sunday afternoon with traffic moving briskly along Ocean Parkway, a major Brooklyn thoroughfare linking the brownstones of Park Slope in the north with the beaches and amusement parks of Coney Island in the south. Suddenly everything comes to a halt.