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The murmured words of Yizkor echo in the upper worlds

At the moment of death, a soul is born

Vasara sucks in her breath. She swivels in her office chair and closes her eyes. Her trip to Riga belongs to another era, relegated to a dusty corner of her brain, the door shut firmly after it

She might always be that weird girl who has fallen from a distant star who doesn’t know half of the endless rules

Flashback J une / July 2012. A political rival of Csanád Szegedi — then 28, and the number-two man in Hungary’s xenophobic, anti-Semitic Jobbik party — posts documents on an ultra-right-wing website showing that Szegedi is Jewish. Szegedi visits his 91-year-old grandmother, who, after a series of conversations, spills the secret she thought she would carry to

Flashback J une / July 2012. A political rival of Csanád Szegedi — then 28, and the number-two man in Hungary’s xenophobic, anti-Semitic Jobbik party — posts documents on an ultra-right-wing website showing that Szegedi is Jewish. Szegedi visits his 91-year-old grandmother, who, after a series of conversations, spills the secret she thought she would carry to

Is seminary in some ways the frum manifestation of the gap year?

“It is crucial that we cultivate the kind of belonging that does not come with a price tag”