Enter your email address to get our weekly email with fresh, exciting and thoughtful content that will enrich your inbox and your life.
Inspiration & Entertainment Contemporary Voices

Stories

Contemporary Jewish writers present stories of faith and integrity, sacrifice and survival, wisdom and wit

Contemporary Jewish writers present true-life stories, inspired fiction and everything in between

Filter Options
154 items in this section
Show all
Select topics to filter for:
Holocaust (28)
Soviet Union (25)
Jewishness; Jewish Identity (19)
Shabbat (13)
Lubavitcher Rebbe (13)
Soviet War on Judaism (10)
Prayer (9)
More topics
154 items in this section
Show all
Select topics to filter for:
Holocaust (28)
Soviet Union (25)
Jewishness; Jewish Identity (19)
Shabbat (13)
Lubavitcher Rebbe (13)
Soviet War on Judaism (10)
Prayer (9)
Divine Providence (8)
Faith; Belief in G-d (7)
Ahavat Yisrael (7)
Charity (6)
Death (6)
Kaddish (6)
Chessed; Acts of Kindness (5)
Outreach & Influence (5)
Self Sacrifice (5)
Baseball (5)
Health, Illness and Healing (4)
Parenting; Parenthood (4)
Childhood; Children (4)
Yom Kippur (4)
Tefillin (4)
Loss, Mourning & Consolation (4)
Miracles (4)
Hospitality (4)
Sudak, R. Pinchas (4)
Self & Fellow (3)
Property & Possessions (3)
Kosher (3)
Love (3)
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
View All 12
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
View All 17
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
Holy Day
View All 26
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
View All 11
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
View All 15
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
View All 9
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
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
I Knew It Was Going To Rain Early This Year
View All 21
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
View All 9
Daily Life
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
Stories that Inspire
More
Fiction
Chassidic Sci-Fi Fantasy
Bookshelf
Related Blogs
Musing for Meaning