Sam’s heart beats rhythm through his Jewish soul. His fondest memory is of sitting on the edge of his friend’s grandmother’s bed, guitar on knee, singing songs that transported the elderly woman back to her past. Though Alzheimer’s made it difficult for her to recognize the once-fami…
Kareen Haim just didn’t fit in with the other teens at her American high school.
In her home, Friday nights were for family, not hanging out with friends. She wasn’t much into partying, anyway.
As a child, her parents took her to Israel every summer to visit dozens of aunts, uncles an…
Mira lived with her husband and two children in Godavari, a slum in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. She was a seamstress, adding to the household’s meager income by sewing sweaters to help others through the brutal highland cold. They didn’t have much, but they saved what they could, and …
Harry was lonely. After his wife of 48 years passed away, he found himself alone in his condo. The pictures of smiling loved ones that lined nearly every surface of his home only made him lonelier.
His daughters Jackie, Sherrie and Judy hated seeing their father grow old this way, and t…
Marcy’s life was in shambles. Her husband had recently passed away from cancer. She was getting fewer and fewer hours at work. Her daughter Shira was struggling socially at school.
And just when life at Shira’s school became intolerable, Marcy’s work hours were cut to zero. She ha…
