Fighting Terror with Chesed

One morning, a member of our shul was urgently looking for a local place to hold an important ZOOM [...]

I was davening in my minyon and noticed a child (under bar mitzvah) davening with us. Several times during the [...]

I was in class playing a game—not “tag” but similar—with my friends when I took out my 5x5x5 Rubik’s cube, [...]

We invited a single Russian lady to our Shabbos table for lunch, but as I was singing “Shalom Aleichem” with [...]

I was busy doing a bunch of intricate errands, and a small child came over to share some excitement in [...]

I took my grandson to buy a pair of shoes at the mall on Erev Shabbos and then as a [...]

I heard of an elderly woman who needed to run some errands in the shopping center, but was unable to get [...]

I read that there was a mourner on our street, but I was very nervous about going there because I [...]

There is a young woman I know of from Beit Shemesh who now lives in a remote part of Israel [...]

As the train was pulling into the Beit Shemesh station, I saw a disabled man with various possessions. Without [...]

While riding my bicycle, I noticed a tzedaka collector. I rode over to him to give him tzedaka and also [...]

A family member took ill and we could not contact him. A kind Hatzalah volunteer helped establish contact, and then took care [...]

My marriage fell apart 2.5 years ago and my social worker sent me to Beit Avot Beit Haelah (an assisted [...]

I noticed a couple wandering on the street in Ramat Beit Shemesh, confused as they tried to locate a particular [...]

While shopping I overheard another customer request from the service attendant to reach a box of food from the high [...]