Two years ago, a sniper's bullet nearly killed me. Today, I run a fitness program for Jews who want to get stronger without leaving their values at the door.
The Hebrew word for dog, kelev, hides two words inside: kol lev, a whole heart. A lifetime of dogs taught me, an anxious kid from a lonely home, what that means.
Claire Blumenthal Zeitler was adopted, Jewish, and — she would later discover — the daughter of an Arab prince. What followed was ten years of searching for her authentic identity.
When my twin brother became religious, I flew to Jerusalem, armed with philosophical arguments, to bring him back home. My mission succeeded, just not the way I planned.
My baby taught me what years of struggle couldn't: that real love doesn't require self-harm, and that the greatest gift I can give my child is a mother who is whole.
In this heart-breaking video, Anderson Cooper speaks with Rachel Goldberg-Polin, an American Israeli mother whose son, Hersh, was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023 and then executed.
In 1944, a teenage boy arrived at Auschwitz and watched his mother and siblings sent to the gas chambers. This is how Leibish Gottesman survived, and what he built from the ashes.