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A Different Counting Shavuos 5782
A Different Counting: Shavuos 5782
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What I Count On      
Faigy Weinberger
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My Mother’s Counting
Sarah Moses Spero
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The Great Wait 
Perel Grossman
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Worthy
Chevy Newman
redo and renew
Resell Your Real Estate
And so it is, the burden I carry each day. Not of blame, or of fear, but of a vicious cycle of confusion and deep, unending self-hate — Who am I? I'M standing in the hallway outside the therapist’s office. It’s December, and my coat is tightly wrapped around me, but not for lack of warmth.
Malkie Gordon-Hirsch
redo and renew
Expectations versus Reality
And so it is, the burden I carry each day. Not of blame, or of fear, but of a vicious cycle of confusion and deep, unending self-hate — Who am I? I'M standing in the hallway outside the therapist’s office. It’s December, and my coat is tightly wrapped around me, but not for lack of warmth.
Michal Frischman
Deal or No Deal
Boys Night Out… without the Sons-in-Law?
You realize that your husband and the other sons-in-law were not invited
Deal or No Deal
Picking Up Socks?
Besides him needing to learn basic derech eretz for me, what will his wife say?
Family First Editor's Letter
Flashback: Editor's Letter, Issue 788
Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.
Bassi Gruen
Family First Editor's Letter
Family First Editor's Letter: Issue 788
Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.
Bassi Gruen
Family Matters
The Fading Light: Chapter 24
He always thought of everything, so I didn’t have to. Now it was my job, and it was daunting
Joan Zlotnick
Family Matters
A Fading Light: Chapter 23
At a particular stage of my husband’s illness, it became clear that the shul we were attending no longer met our needs
Joan Zlotnick
On the House
On the House: Chapter 27
“I... how often are you thinking of hosting events like these? I mean, they’re wonderful, and they do bring in business, it’s just... whatever”
Faigy Schonfeld
On the House
On the House: Chapter 26
She had so many ideas, so much passion — and she was going to funnel it all into a random project that meant nothing to anybody
Faigy Schonfeld
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