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I'm Stuck
Protecting My Younger Siblings
Faigy Peritzman
I'm Stuck
Will an out-of-the-box yeshivah offer my son too much freedom?
Faigy Peritzman
Match Quest
Not Sure about Mr. Nice
Sara Eisemann
I'm Stuck
My Aging Parents Want to Move But Still Need So Much Help       
Faigy Peritzman
Match Quest
Is Who I Seem to Be Who I Want to Be?
Sara Eisemann
Family Room
From Our Furniture Files
In the vast world of online furniture shopping, our contributors share their favorite rapid-fire tips to minimize the overwhelm.
Family Room Contributors
Family Room
Accessorize: The Bathroom Issue
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Rivki Rabinowitz
Family First Feature
Unleash Your Inner Artist
Here are step-by-step instructions to bring paint night to your home
Sarah Esral
Game On!
Long Drives, Late Nights, Lots of Laughs  
You can pull out an old game from the basement — but why not play one of these creative, curated games for even more fun?
Chanie Nayman
Magazine Feature
Turkish Trail Mix
Mile by mile, tweet by tweet, Rabbi Mendy Chitrik traipses through Turkey on the ultimate back-to-roots Jewish journey
Yochonon Donn
On Site
The Hills Are Alive
Sometimes to have a great trip, all you need is a Tanach
Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
Halachah
Which Bin?
Keep, toss, save, sell: A Pesach cleaning primer
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
Magazine Feature
Not Giving Up on Uman 
Can thousands of Breslovers fuse spirituality with safety in the heart of Ukraine?
Ben Horodenker
Impressions
Gifted
But then there are the gifts that don’t fit into shoeboxes, or shelves, or even albums
F. Jakabovits
The Moment
Living Higher: To See and Appreciate Potential
From 1958 until his passing in 1991, Rav Ezriel Yehuda Leibowitz led the American Vienner kehillah
Mishpacha Staff
2.0 Feature
From Property to Prosperity
Robert Shemin believes anyone can corner the market, and participants of his course are sold
Barbara Bensoussan
Job Search
So, You Want to Be a… Physical Therapist        
Physical therapists diagnose and treat patients whose function and movement are limited due to illness, injury, weakness, or other causes
Gila Arnold
Club Jr.
Club Jr. Episode 15: Season Finale!
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Jr. Contributors
Club Jr.
Club Jr. Special! A Trip to Beit Shemesh
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Jr. Contributors
Counter Point
All Our Children: The conversation continues
"When parents stop sacrificing their children upon the altars of self-image, we will have students who feel valued by, and love for, the systems they are in"
Mishpacha Readers
Perspective
Before You Send Your Son
If you want to take advantage of Eretz Yisrael, don’t bring America with you
Yosef Herz
On Site
WATCH: Live in Caesarea
Watch: Follow Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz on a virtual tour around the sites at Caesarea!
Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
Feature Videos
WATCH: On Site Live in Tzippori!
Follow Rabbi Schwartz around Tzipori and hear the amazing stories from the time of the mishna and gemara
Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
Family First Feature
Choose Life    
I was engaged when I discovered that I was a carrier of the BRCA gene
Erin Stiebel
Family First Feature
Emerging from the Whirlpool    
My hyperemesis gravidarum was unbearable. Then I found a path through the darkness
Tali Edelstein
The Moment
Overheard: Issue 876
"What does Hashem want from us? He doesn’t want from us. He wants us"
Mishpacha Staff
The Moment
No Worries
"He looks like he did ten years ago and twenty years ago too…”
Mishpacha Staff
Flashback
Flashback — Fundamentals: From Humdrum to Happy, Issue 567 
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner
Flashback
Flashback — Musings: Growing Old Gracefully, Issue 324
“There’s no longer any need to keep up”
Yaffa Ganz
Feature Videos
WATCH! Stardust in Seagate
The next chapter of Yossi Green's musical journey!
Yisroel Besser
Feature Videos
Take 2 with Rabbi YY Jacobson
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Yisroel Besser
Incredible Lab
Make your own tornado tube with Yochanan Ghoori!
Watch Yochanan Ghoori's homemade tornado!
Yochanan Ghoori
Incredible Lab
Make Your Own Tornado Tube!
Use colored Chanukah oil and some spinning power to create your own tornado vortex
Yochanan Ghoori
The Day After
Adjusting to The Day After: Chinuch
An expert panel featuring Rabbi Menachem Karmel, Rabbi Zvi Bender and Rabbi Ari Schonfeld, moderated by Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan WATCH / LISTEN TO THE PANEL HERE
Mishpacha Contributors
The Day After
Adjusting to The Day After: Children's Tech
An expert panel featuring Rabbi David Ozeri, Dr. Eli Shapiro, and Mrs. Aliza Feder, moderated by Mr. Alex Paskie WATCH / LISTEN TO THE PANEL HERE
Mishpacha Contributors
Feature Videos
Take 2 with Abie Rotenberg
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Yisroel Besser
Feature Videos
WATCH! Take 2 with Yossi Gestetner
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Yisroel Besser
Perspective
Kiddush Club Is Not the Problem
Our community does not have a unique problem, but we are small enough that we can create unique solutions
Rabbi Yisrael Motzen
Text Messages
No Room for Doubt
He is King and it’s His Will and Word, not ours, that is the very definition of truth
Eytan Kobre
Tribute
Whatever Needed to Be Done 
Mourning Reb Uri Mandelbaum, legendary principal of the Philadelphia Yeshivah
Rabbi Henoch Plotnik
Magazine Feature
Keeper of the Trust
A final conversation with the Gaavad, Rav Yitzchok Tovia Weiss
Aryeh Ehrlich
Fiction
The Anti-MILC Society
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Gila Arnold
Fiction
Out of Sorts
Tamar's life felt all wrong. Did the Sorting Sheitel make a mistake?
Gila Arnold
For the Record
“Der Baal Teshuvah” Comes to America
Dr. Birnbaum’s continued search led him to Orthodox Judaism
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
For the Record
There’s No Football Team in Lomza
The Lomza Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Yechiel Mordechai Gordon, spent more than 15 years in the United States fundraising
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
Feature Videos
Sanhedrin Stopovers: Rabi Yehuda ben Bava's Kever
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
Feature Videos
Sanhedrin Stopovers: Shefaram Synagogue
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
The Current
Firewall under fire
As Israeli-made offensive cyber-tech from the NSO Group is revealed to have targeted world leaders, will Israel’s own edge be blunted by foreign-sales restrictions?
Eliezer Shulman
A Few Minutes With
A Few Minutes with Shlomo Toaff, Head of the Iron Dome Directorate
"Iron Dome was something that people thought was impossible"
Gedalia Guttentag
LifeLines
New Brother, Old Brother
The brother we knew was never coming back
C. Saphir
On Site
Breslov in My Backyard
Finding the essence of prayer in a Jerusalem wadi
Shoshana Friedman
Knesset Channel
Bibi’s Sweetest Victory
In this campaign, there were no rabbits pulled out of hats; the battle plan was carefully plotted from beginning to end
Avi Blum, ESQ
Israel's “Red Wave”
What forces and trends influenced Israeli voters to kick out the left and ride a center-right, or red wave into power?
Binyamin Rose
EndNote
Still Coming Out of Mitzrayim
"Whenever Pharaoh knocks at my door, I sing the song to remind myself that I’ve got a little bit of Moses in me, too”
Riki Goldstein
EndNote
Mood Mix with Aharon Berk    
Aharon Berk lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he learns in kollel and is a featured wedding and events singer
Riki Goldstein
Musings
Forever Special Children 
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Brochie Wolfson
Family Tempo
All the Broken Roads   
New husband. New baby. So why did she want to run home?
Ariella Schiller
Halachah
Minhag Yisrael or Made Up?
Real minhagim have a halachic power whereas a made-up practice does not 
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
Parshah
The Why Guy
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Faigy Peritzman
Recipes
Kishka Corn Dogs
If there’s one food that defines a heimish dinner party, it’s kishka! So why not fry up some kishka for Chanukah?
Chaya Surie Goldberger
PlateArt
Going for a Spin
Enjoy your Chanukah break with your family with these adorable edible crafts!
Esther Ottensoser
Podcast: The Rose Report
Barak Ravid's Book on Trump Did us a Favor
Before voting for Trump again, or welcoming his Orthodox Jewish advisors back with open arms, or even voting for Bibi again, their clumsy diplomacy should be held against them
Binyamin Rose
Podcast: The Rose Report
IT’S ALL BIDEN’S FAULT. OR IS IT?
Israel has had ups and downs with all US presidents, including with Trump. For now, Biden has kept one promise to Israel – that he would keep any disagreements between him and Israel private. As long as he keeps his word, we should reciprocate
Binyamin Rose
Feature Videos
Take 2 with Rabbi Shlomo Bochner
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Yisroel Besser
Feature Videos
Take 2 with Rabbi Aaron Kotler
I look like a typical ben Torah. But lockdown changed me   This question is kind of awkward, but I’m really confused and don’t feel comfortable discussing this with my rebbi or my parents. I’m what you would describe as “a really good boy.” I go to minyan every day, I take my learning seriously,
Yisroel Besser
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Friendship Fix
I Feel Guilty for Being Grateful on My Friend’s Cheshbon!     
I don’t want her to feel like she can’t lean on me because I don’t lean on her
Shoshana Itzkowitz
Friendship Fix
“Should Women Be Schmoozing about Their Shalom Bayis?” 
The best way to end the conversation without making an issue or insulting anyone is to subtly change the topic
Shoshana Itzkowitz
I'm Stuck
I Think My Son-in-Law Is Depressed and Needs Help  
Faigy Peritzman
Family First Feature
Better Together
When challenges loom, support groups can provide a lifeline
Mindel Kassorla
Family Connections
How to Help a Child Simply Not Doing Anything
Hashem has installed a “survive and thrive” program within each of us
Sarah Chana Radcliffe
Family First Feature
The Money- Friendship Maze
Experts weigh in on sticky scenarios in which friendship and finances seem to be on a fast track for collision
Ariella Schiller