Although this is a memoir, one needs to be prepared for flights of imagination that were part of her hopes that never materialized.
Rabbi Thaler, who ran the camp until 1997 and also served for 37 years as rabbi of Temple Gates of Prayer in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, died April 18. He was 91.
The book describes the supreme efforts of mourners to find a minyan, a prayer quorum of 10 men, in many countries and in the most unlikely places for the recitation of the Mourner’s Kaddish
Thanks to Kahneman, hospital systems and HMOs now offer generic drugs to physicians as the first choice, knowing how powerful the status quo bias is.
A Gazan terrorist fired an RPG toward a floor in the building where Kudriashov and the rest of the Egoz force were staying, in the al-Amal neighborhood in western Khan Yunis.
Baruch leaves behind his wife and two children, as well as his parents and siblings. He was kidnapped from the area near the Nova music festival on October 7.
Stern's life story featured in the documentary film “Near Normal Man” and in his 2022 memoir, “Near Normal Man: Survival with Courage, Kindness and Hope.”
The Rothschild banking family traces its roots back to 18th century Frankfurt, from where different family members moved to cities across Europe to build out banking businesses.
Is it not cruel that even the greatest of people are destined to die, that we only exist for the tiniest slice of history?
While nobody who hasn’t lost a child can fully empathize with the sort of trauma Robinson experienced, any reader can take something of value from the general truths that he expresses so eloquently.