The story of Postville is more than the story of a plant closing in a small town. It is the story of a small, American Gothic-style prairie town that was forced by economics to accept an unfamiliar cultural diversity. It is the story of a widely-varied yet tightly-knit Chassidic community putting down roots in an unlikely location. And it is the story of an entire town united in prayer, waiting and hoping that the homes and businesses they’ve struggled to create will survive
Known to thousands of readers for his inspiring bestseller Go My Son, Holocaust survivor Chaim Shapiro maintained his emunah throughout a life of adventures and losses.
A survivor herself, Yaffa Eliach has accomplished a staggering amount in commemorating the Holocaust. Throughout, she has focused not only on the deaths of the residents of the vanished shtetlach, but also on their lives.
Falsely accused of spying for Israel, the saga of David Tenenbaum, an Orthodox Jew from Detroit, began more then a decade ago, but justice is just beginning to be done.
After surviving years of torture at the hands of the Iraqi regime on charges of spying for Israel, former Iraqi millionaire Sassoon Abda, now one hundred years old, can finally rest his bones
We’ve built up the Jewish world, one baal teshuvah at a time. What’s next? An interview with Rav Noach Weinberg in May 2008.
