Growing up in a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community outside Tel Aviv, David Palatnik’s parents hoped he would one day become a rabbi. As a youngster, he attended one yeshiva, then another. “By the time you go to the third one, you’re like, I think...

Jason Malashock has had to reorient himself a number of times over the last decade. Consider the following:• A 2013 accident on a farm in which a utility vehicle rolled on top of him and severed his arm at the elbow. • A subsequent severe addiction...