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Praying can extend life

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Being religious can actually be a life saver.

Blossom and Israel Rubin wrote to the Jerusalem Post explaining how their soldier grandson had been davening in Gaza.

“As a group of soldiers bowed down at the call of barechu, a sniper’s bullet whizzed over one soldier. Had he not bent over … the bullet would almost certainly have ripped through his head.”

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