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What Makes Fireflies Light Up?
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What Are Freckles?  
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What Causes Thunder and Lightning?   
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A Chopped Competition
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What Is Snow?
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The Conversation Continues
A Letter from a Teen — The Conversation Continues
Our readers weigh in on whether we should honor our teens’ requests for therapy
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Strictly Business: the Conversation Continues
Readers debate boundaries, business, and balance
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15 Years
Advertising Strategy
"In general, we bend over backward to make sure the reader is getting the full value he purchased the magazine for, because there is only one consideration: you, the reader" 
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A Psychologist After All
The making of a magazine: Special anniversary project
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Why Owning Less Is Really More
After latkes and doughnuts, why not indulge in the gift of breathing space?
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Organizing "Things"  
Let’s transform your personal space into zen and peaceful rather than cloudy and stressful
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A Summer Well Spent
The Higher Part of You
"To see how 'I' and 'me' are just ways to say ‘us' and 'we'; to expand yourself to include others"
Yosef Herz
A Summer Well Spent
The Real Teachers
"It was all part of being there, showing the unaffiliated that bnei Torah can be fun, normal, and serious about Yiddishkeit at the same time"
Yosef Herz
Teen Feature
Teens Talk About... Growth Mindset
Teens' insights on what works, what doesn’t, and how they find and create inspiration in daily life
Bashie Lisker
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We sat down with a few principals from various schools to hear about the ins and outs of their job
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I stared at my brother and realized that I had just watched him perform an act of sternutation!

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If Mimi’s teeth can just fall out, could my eyeball fall out? Could my arm fall off?

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