Tzippy Koltnyuk

As Michal Levitin gets up on stage to perform, the audience bursts out laughing. She hasn’t even opened her mouth yet.

Two years ago, Adel was fatally injured in a stone-throwing terror attack in Shomron (Samaria). After a long battle against overwhelming odds Adel returned her soul to her Creator. This is from a conversation with Adel’s mother, Edva Biton, a woman who ex...

This is the story of Rabbi Zev Vagner, editor of the “Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry,” who travels throughout the former Soviet Union and Israel, deeply entrenched in outreach and helping to bring Jews back to Judaism. For his significant literary work, he...

It was only 10 years ago that she was a little girl wandering the streets of Ukraine, neglected, alone and unloved. No one believed in her, and her future was bleak. At the age of 13 she was brought to Israel by the organization Chabad’s Children of Chern...

Young Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Yisroel and Chaya Kozlovsky have been married for four years and are the parents of two children. Two years ago, they undertook an especially difficult assignment as co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch in Mumbai, India...

At a young age, she announced that she was going to have a home just like theirs when she grew up, with a big Shabbat table and many children...

In 1973, Ellen Peters, a Protestant biracial woman, was chosen as South Africa’s beauty queen. Today, she goes by the name Ilana Skolnick, and she is an observant Jew.

Every seven years, the Torah tells us, the farmers in the Land of Israel are to lay down their farming implements and allow the land to lay fallow. This seventh year is known as a “shemittah (sabbatical) year.” This coming year will be Zev Steiglitz’s eig...

The moment they got off the airplane, a heavy snowfall began. They thought it was a blizzard, but it was just their first small taste of winter in Siberia.

Smadar Morag used to try hard to hide her Judaism, which she considered a burden . . .