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Stories on Shabbat
Stories on Shabbat
Spending Shabbat in the ER
The Old Man in the English Village
My Snowy Walk to Shul During the Blizzard of 2016
The Rebbe Inspired Me to Turn Down the Job
The Shabbat Man
The Rabbi's Motorcycle Accident
The Banker's Shabbat Dilemma
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Stories on Holidays
Stories on Holidays
Baseball on the Day of Atonement
One More Light
The New Year's Card
Hospital-bound, She Found a Way to Celebrate Rosh Hashanah
It Should Again See Light
A Pair of Tefillin for Sandy Koufax
Kosher For Passover
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Stories on Prayer
Stories on Prayer
Pray and Play
Kaddish at a Baseball Game
The Cabdriver
The Bulkhead
The Missing Corpse
Stories of the Holocaust
Stories of the Holocaust
Leaviing Haditch: How I Survived the Nazi Killing Fields in Ukraine
How the 'Silver Torah' Survived the Nazis
How Our Family Escaped the Nazis
A Holocaust Chanukah Miracle
All She Remembered Was Her Name
How a Kind Word Saved Her Life
A Young Girl's Yom Kippur Under Nazi Rule
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Modern-Day Miracles
Modern-Day Miracles
Why Did Moshe Buy a Stroller?
Coma
The Seventh Year
Zeida
A Pittsburgh Miracle
When There Is Nowhere to Turn
A Rosh Hashanah Miracle
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Stories of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Stories of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
An Irish Kid with a Jewish Name
Fans and Players
The Blow
The Girl Who Had To Be Jewish
The Rebbe and Viktor Frankl
"The Rebbe Said"
Zahavah’s Friend
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Stories on Return
Stories on Return
A Jew in a Jeep
A Mezuzah for Mama
Yisroel
Schreiber the Jew
An Emotional Wedding
Shimon the Levi
Something for G-d
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Stories in the Soviet Union
Stories in the Soviet Union
Under Soviet Rule
In Modern Times
Stories on Giving
Stories on Giving
At the Western Wall
Road Work
The Holy Beggars of Safed
Check Out My Room
Stories that Inspire
Stories that Inspire
The Unexpected Kaddish
What Made Me Cry Outside the Fruit Store
A Jew Named Elliot
Spending Shabbat in the ER
We Were in Thailand and the Meds Were in Cambodia
Why Elijah the Prophet Should Find Chabad
Confessions At Coleman
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Stories from Professor Greene, NASA Scientist
By Velvl Greene
What Happens When a Plant Grows in Orbit
Perspective
The Rebbe Encouraged Looking for Life on Mars
Jewish Education and Space Flight
What Is Life Anyway?
The Problems of Intergalactic Travel and Jewish Continuity
A Matter of Importance
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Personal Journeys
Stories
Stories on Shabbat
Stories on Holidays
Stories on Prayer
Stories of the Holocaust
Modern-Day Miracles
Stories of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Stories on Return
Stories in the Soviet Union
Stories on Giving
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