It was the year 2000. I had started out on a Young Judea year course program but knew that I wanted more. My parents didn’t know what to do because […]
I was extremely moved when I recently read the article titled “Reb Meir Schuster: The Man at the Wall.” The article began by stating, “A debilitating illness is crushing Rabbi […]
Many years ago, I worked summers as an educator with groups of non-religious US teenagers. On their first day in Yerushalayim we took them to the Kotel and gave them […]
I’ve been reading all of these stories, so similar yet each one so unique. Mine begins in November 1975. I was Jessica Rochmis then, on a weekend trip to Jerusalem, […]
Sweet Suzy from Queens (to the tune of Sweet Betsey from Pike) Oh don’t you remember sweet Suzy from Queens The one on Kibbutz with the holes in her jeans […]
I worked with Rabbi Schuster day in, day out for 15 years. I started to work for Heritage House on November 15, 1992; during Rabbi Schuster’s fall trip to the […]
I was in Israel for my junior year of college (1975-76). I was in the summer ulpan at Haifa University (as were all the kids from California) and planned a […]
I grew up with no knowledge about and no positive feelings for Judaism. In the autumn of 1981, after finishing college, I decided to travel through Europe. Winter caught me moving […]
A Glimpse Into His Greatness – by Eli Glaser You can actually daven maariv on motzei Shabbos before making Havdalah? This concept was an anathema to me – at least […]
My Rabbi Schuster story parallels the many others involving lost Jewish souls whom he found searching for their Jewish heritage while in Jerusalem. He is a special man who moves […]