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A Fight or Flight Response   
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Think Your Way to Motivation 
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Compared to… 
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Share the Mic
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Passenger or Pilot?
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Dialogue
A Time to Be Silent, a Time to Speak Out
Blame has no place among believing Jews. But responsibility does
Eliyahu Paley
In the Spirit
In the Spirit of...Yom Kippur
A key component of helping children learn regulation skills is to model them Passenger or Pilot? Zipora Schuck and Devora Schuck Imagine you are on a plane encountering a great deal of turbulence. As the people around you begin losing their cool, the pilot gets on the loudspeaker and yells at everyone to be quiet,
Chaya Rosen
In the Spirit
In the Spirit of...Rosh Hashanah
Yom Tov trivia
Chaya Rosen
Madame Chamberlaine
Heat, Hats, and Haircuts
“Shana! Dana! Is everything okay? Why are the two of you wearing winter hats in this heat?!”
Tzipie Wolner
Madame Chamberlaine
Lollipops and Sausages
"She’s been asking for des sucettes et des saucisses. Can you tell me what these words mean?”
Tzipie Wolner
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Short Supply
Covid, in addition to causing immense loss of life, disrupted the world’s supply chain of products and services
Omri Nahmias
In Other News
Yeshivos in the Crosshairs: Round II
It is clear that the Regents are determined to exert their control over private schools for the first time
Yochonon Donn
DMCs
Learning to Fly
“Loser, you’re a loser,” my classmates taunt, pointing at my cleft lip while I shrink into hopeless oblivion
Devorah Grant
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Losing Game
I would find myself crying not for Kaila and her family, but for the simplicity of my own life before this all happened
Ariella Schiller
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