Tzvi's Stories

“Happy Chanukah, Jilly, my lovely ballerina,” said Grandma, with a hug. “Kayn ein hara [no evil eye], you’re growing up so fast.” Glancing at her husband, Grandma sighed, “Before you know it, she’ll be a kallah [bride].” Jill blushed. “Just remember,” Poppy said, looking sternly into her eyes, “one day you’ll make your own Jewish [...]

In the spring of 1968, I completed my commitment as an officer in the United States Public Health Service. I was a young man, recently out of college.  I had served for two years as an environmental engineer.  A year and a half in Georgia and Florida, working on a project to eradicate the Yellow [...]

It was 5:30 in the morning, just before dawn. Faige whisked her six-month-old baby down the wooden stairs, while her husband Beryl balanced their two- and three-year-olds, one in each arm. Their three older children shuffled behind. An observer would have been impressed with how efficiently the entire Levitin clan then piled into the family [...]

For ten years our front door was 35 feet from the busiest road leading in and out of Morristown, New Jersey. Zoom, zoom, zoom – one car after another going 40 to 50 miles per hour, not only during the morning and afternoon rush hours, but all week long. To say we had to shout [...]

  Just before noon on September 1, 1989, I was driving through a seedy section of downtown Elizabeth, New Jersey, when I spotted a branch of my bank. I parked in the deserted lot behind the building, walked around to the front entrance, and then remembered that I left my check in my car. I [...]

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Tzvi’s original collection of stories were published in 1995 in a paperback edition titled “Truths Revealed.” A revised, expanded, illustrated, hardcover edition was printed in the year 2000, and renamed “From the Heavens to the Heart.” (My apologies to those who thought the new book was totally new.)  Both books sold out (5,000 copies), although [...]