Human Interest
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Yosef Waslow’s mother was Jewish and white. His father was Black and had been raised in a Baptist home. Growing up in Logan, a North Philadelphia neighborhood that had once been home to many Jewish families, he spent much of his childhood wondering where he belonged. Among his Black friends, he was often “the white […]
History
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Warder Cresson was born to a prominent Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 13, 1798. Members of his family were successful artisans and entrepreneurs, and owned prime real estate in the center of Philadelphia, as well as farmland in the surrounding countryside. When he was seventeen, Warder went to work on the family farms. […]
David Cohen was the only Jew living in the tiny city of Myrtle Point, Oregon, five hours from the nearest Jewish community. An online chat with a rabbi on Aish.com was about to change his life. - Hi it’s Rabbi Broker, can I help you? - My name is David Cohen. I have too many […]
Excerpted from One Day in October: Forty Heroes, Forty Stories. Emerging from the pain and sorrow inflicted on October 7, 2023, these first-person accounts offer consolation and hope. Yahav and I met in acting school, and from the day we met until our final moment together, we never stopped arguing about who fell in love […]
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Hiding from God and the roots of destruction.
