Ellen Weinstein, a Lower East Side native, has created a picture book titled "Five Stories" that chronicles the lives of five immigrant families from different countries and decades who lived in the same Lower East Side tenement building.

Israel has been experiencing a wave of immigration from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, with many immigrants opening businesses that cater to their culinary preferences.

In this personal account, the author describes a meeting with George Soros, during which the author urged Soros to donate his money to Israel instead of Hungarian causes.

Styopa and Simon plan a trip to Bluebell Inn in the Catskills, reminiscent of the once-popular Jewish resort area known as the Borscht Belt.