יום שבת, כ״ו תמוז תשפ״וSaturday, July 11, 2026
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By Naama Klein
Though dozens of beautiful and memorable Pesachs have passed since that fateful chag thirty-five years ago, the memory of that tragic Yom Tov is forever engrained in our family’s collective memory.
By Ann Goldberg
I was dumbstruck. I couldn’t help but laugh. Here we thought the idea was my husband’s but obviously the idea came from somewhere else.
By dvora
Baruch Hashem, I have plenty of family in Israel, but Miriam’s host was not “family” per se, though her host would differ with me on this fact, rather someone whose family had an impact on me over 50 years ago!
By Judy Gottesman and Leah Tisser
Their father had been deported to a forced labor camp at the beginning of the Holocaust. He was never seen again.
By Ann Goldberg
He hadn’t even bothered to think of a plausible excuse as to why they had suddenly found a spare Seder dish and he hoped they wouldn’t ask him any questions.
We were pleasantly surprised, just after my wife lit the Shabbos candles, when Sonja’s face lit up and she exclaimed, “I remember my mother doing that!”
By Alan Magill
The fact that I was in a hurry made me think I should just take the card from him and open it for him.
After all, the exact amount one will make throughout the year is determined on Rosh Hashanah. It was only during Rosh Hashanah davening that I realized exactly what the kaparah was for.
The woman closest to her smiled and said, "I'm not, but my great grandmother was, and I like Jewish people."
By Chava Dumas
Where could we go? There was no shelter anywhere! But then we noticed a small white house beside an old red barn hiding behind the trees.
One evening, that young man ‘happened’ to leave just as I did, and he chivalrously offered to walk me to my bus stop.
A Job…good girls… “I’ll get one,” I whispered furtively to Blankie. “I’ll be one of those good girls.”
By Chava Dumas
He handed it to me and hmm… yes, it was definitely a private check book left unattended, with a woman’s name, address, and phone number printed at the top.
The day finally came, and with great anticipation and joy, both Einat and her husband went to the hospital.
This was just one of the odd things I heard, there were more when we visited the family sitting shiva.
By Naama Klein
As he was en route, with one scholar and one scholar-wannabe in tow, he was unfortunately involved in a too-close encounter with a huge army truck.
By dvora
As he was leading the kehillah, he heard a voice in his ear instructing him “to take care of my daughter.”
Occasionally, Shimon would enquire after their children and grandchildren but for many this was too painful as they had little or no contact with them, so he had learnt over the years who he could ask and who he shouldn’t.
By Naama Klein
It was only later in the day, during afternoon carpool, that things abruptly spun out of control. Literally.
Rabbi Margalit, wanting somehow to soothe the man’s pain, began to respond but the man wouldn’t let him.
By Y. Alterman
“Don’t say a word,” Mrs. P warned us with a wag of her finger. “Let the kallah think for herself.”
Although I did not know it yet, missing my stop was predestined.
I was not going to be the one to point out to her that there had been no reason for her to turn around at all.
By Naama Klein
Our reactions range from dismay to shellshock to utter helplessness. In fact, her youngest sister has yet to forgive her for the very unpleasant and unwelcome surprise that greeted us that morning.
By Ann Goldberg
I opened my e-mail and for the first time there was an e-mail from her waiting for me.
By dvora
The woman next to me leaned even further forward, and soon started to interject comments as I spoke to the couple.
By dvora
My parents knew so much but were never too proud to learn something from their children for whom they provided a proper Jewish education.
In the end, I reluctantly moved into the widow’s home on my own, and somehow managed to pull through, despite my acute disappointment and frustration.
I stood up, lurching down the hall, and collided into an old man clutching a pole with in IV bag.
Immediately people went up to him to help him, to find out what the problem was and to solve it as soon as possible.
By dvora
I was instructed to stop all treatment, and I did. However, I insisted on meeting face to face with my doctor.
He loved to watch the boy’s face light up when he offered to learn with him, and that was reward enough.
By Naama Klein
Is everything in my life and daily existence a slice of paradise?
Be happy. Be grateful. God knows what he is doing. It is all happening for a reason.
We get so busy living our lives, handling our day-to-day little crises that we forget to go that one step deeper and appreciate our lives.
By Naama Klein
Before divulging the reason for her call, she took quite a while to retrace the circuitous route that had led her to me.
By dvora
Upon awakening, I noticed several messages on my phone wishing me “mazal tov” on the arrival of a little maidel.
It is very exciting because the women are answering amen because it is a mitzvah, because it is agreeing with the statement that Hashem creates all our food for us...
By D. B. Estrin
Snow in Jerusalem! For many New Englanders like me, snow pulls at our nostalgic heartstrings like nothing else can.
Quite different from computers or a secretarial work which are much more in demand, the need for a sports or exercise teacher was obviously not very high, and as much as Sharon looked for work, she remained unemployed.
By Naama Klein
Yesterday was another heartening day, one that provided me with yet another unexpected, but much-needed boost to my mood and self-esteem.
By dvora
Suddenly, the pilot's voice could be heard. He explained that this was a special day for those passengers on board who lived in Israel.
By dvora
I realized from this story that I was sent as a messenger from above. Hashem has many helpers in this world to help do his work.
I had imagined it was my mother who would probably miss us the most. But what do we really know about what is happening?
By dvora
Miraculously, the baby came out without a scratch, though some glass shards had to be brushed off his hat.
By Naama Klein
As a borderline CDO (OCD alphabetized) sufferer, I really wanted to have every last thread tied up securely before we hit the road.
I was about six years old at the time and recall that very special occasion so well.
Rachel was thrown by the sight and began to caringly think whom this person might be.
By Naama Klein
With lots of time on his hands and a wealth of teaching experience under his belt, his answer was a no-brainer.
By dvora
This young man was particularly fine, as when his parents suggested he date someone, he didn’t bother to look at resumes or pictures, as many young men do. He trusted his parents knew his best interests, and attempted to put his best foot forward.
By Ann Goldberg
They had realized they would be far from civilization and kosher food and had packed plenty of fresh and canned food as well as making sure there was a microwave in their room which they knew how to kasher.
By Ann Goldberg
He was deeply saddened by the thought of her going to her final resting place alone and that it appeared as if she knew no one and had no family who cared about her.
By Susha Zipper
“What a way to spend a Sunday afternoon,” my husband remarked. “Well, baruch Hashem we are safe, there was no accident, and I’m sure there is a good reason for everything that happened to us,” I mused.
By dvora
Because of the way the piece of my finger had been severed, the doctors at the hospital were not able to reattach it. They told me I’d have to see a specialist.
Nissim Menashe 50, a resident of Petach Tikvah, celebrated last Israel Independence Day like most of the country, he had a barbecue with his family. It was a memorable event. He was standing close to the grill as a relative went to light it but because of the wind, the flame ignited the bottle of lighting […]
By dvora
Recently, I was outside and noticed two Lubavitcher boys placing fliers in all the mailboxes where they noticed a mezuzah, as Lubavitcher are known to do.
How was I going to get to Manhattan? No cabs were going, we didn't have a car, and many people who did have cars had no gas.
By Naama Klein
B’chasdei Hashem, I found precisely enough chicken, prepared meat knishes and various other foods I required.
By Ruti David
But… “Is there anything…,” I choked out, “that I could do, as a merit that G-d should have mercy on me?”
"But you have all our credit card details from when we paid for the car.”
By Naama Klein
Eventually, after some trial and error, including an experience with a prima donna and one with a thief, I baruch Hashem ultimately found a fine, honest and reliable household helper.
I was aware he didn’t want me to “imagine” making coffee in a forced new dream.
By dvora
It all started with the recent deluge of rain we here in Israel were privileged to have.
By dvora
After I put the tefillin away, the man said that he felt different, and that he had never felt that way before.
Her first tactic was tefillah; she immediately began to recite one perek after another of Tehillim.
Suddenly, she turns to me and says, “B'emet, I need to thank you, you made me excited to come back to Israel.”
As we walked, I told her how I had hoped for the chance to thank her for her amazing visit.
When my father died suddenly when I was newly married there was no one who had to say Kaddish for him. I am one of four daughters and he had no brothers.
By dvora
Mommy, please don’t be so sad. Here in the next world Hashem Yisborach’s plan is much clearer.
She was determined that the Law class was Dina’s best chance of finding a husband, and that was the real reason she wanted her to go to college.
By dvora
But who would have ever guessed that Hashem would unlock the key to the birth on same day as the English anniversary of our wedding.
By As Told To Esther Leah Avner
In a way that decision was the first in a series of miracles with which Hashem blessed us.
And so it was that both those women whose lives had been saved in Yerushalayim only about a month earlier, were now in a Manhattan hospital with the woman who inadvertently had helped save their lives.
By Naama Klein
When I pulled up at their house, my worst fears were confirmed.
Yet, ultimately, looking back, these “setbacks” turned out to be really for the patient’s best – for the good.
By Jolie Greiff
Dr. Schwartz had no other alternatives up his sleeve. He suggested my mother go home and think about what she wanted to do.
By Naama Klein
So why was she forever unceremoniously dumping them in the library after the long school day was over and virtually all the other students and staff members had already gone home?
By dvora
Several months ago, I made a serious effort to find an apartment in the "better" area but, alas, the rents were too high. I felt that I was stuck where I was.
“My mother raised us to independence, all of us,” Rivka says, which certainly plays itself out in the fact that all three children have taken a different path.
By Naama Klein
Surprisingly, my husband and one son arrived home over half-an-hour earlier than usual. I excitedly shared my perfect-timing story, but my better half one upped me easily.
By B. Schreiber
To the surprise of our protectzia-invested acquaintances, my family has thrived in our daled amos without that amenity, b’ezras Hashem.
All the way to the airport I could only think of what if …
Throughout the war, Akiva had several brief furloughs home, and each time exchanged whichever mishnayos volume he had finished for the next in the series.
Why am I getting so agitated? And look how we’re treating each other!
By dvora
This young, innocent child gave me a powerful, warm surge of energy and strength.
By Naama Klein
In contrast to her Eicha-like lamentations of the previous hour or more, however, my youngest was now grinning from ear-to-ear.
By R. Weber
“The window is above the flat sukkah roof,” he reported. “I could definitely climb in, but I need a ladder...”
By dvora
Needless to say, it was done and they formed a great relationship as his friend and mentor. He started attending services and volunteered his time all along putting on tefillin.
By dvora
He took me to a room filled with computer equipment and said, “You pray here for as long as you want.” I couldn’t believe my ears.
An interview was overheard in which an Arab asked a Hamas commander: "What's the problem? Why aren't you hitting your targets? Don't you know how to aim?" To which he was answered: "We know how to aim very well. We are experts. But their G-d moves the missiles."
“But they told me to come in today,” she said. They gave me this date months ago. It’s not my fault if it’s the wrong day.”
By Naama Klein
The answers, though, were out there, waiting patiently and shimmering in the distance until the One with all the answers decided to enlighten us.
By Sarah Massry
Edward was completely mystified, yet had no choice but to obey his captain’s orders.
By dvora
It was found to be a giant deer tick living in her head – with its claws in her scalp.
By Larry Lipetz
While daydreaming about finding the perfect job, I never expected to be rewarded in spades for my aforementioned experience.
By Naama Klein
Our home is in the center of the Holy Land, surrounded by (what else?) green hills and valleys.
By Alan Magill
The simple act of kindness should be the reward itself. Anything more in the form of a reward is gravy.
Herman was speechless, yet the look in his eyes said it all. Indeed, his gratitude knew no bounds.
By dvora
A few seats away, I noticed a man with a Mishnah in hand, talking intently into a cell phone. I soon realized the man was participating in a Daf Yomi shiur, utilizing his traveling time well.
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