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What Makes Fireflies Light Up?
Yael Zoldan
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What Are Freckles?  
Yael Zoldan
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What Causes Thunder and Lightning?   
Yael Zoldan
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A Chopped Competition
Yael Zoldan
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What Is Snow?
Yael Zoldan
D-Day for MAGA
The Many Battles of Donald Trump
A short tour through some of the conflicts that have defined Trumpworld
Gedalia Guttentag
D-Day for MAGA
Diplomatic Forecast
How will next Tuesday’s result affect these treaties? What will become of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? For some predictions, we turned to two former Israeli ambassadors to Washington, Michael Oren and Danny Ayalon
Omri Nahmias
Unboxed
America, Step Back
There’s a direct line between what went on since the November elections, and the political violence that shook Washington, D.C. on January 6
Gedalia Guttentag
Unboxed
Humbled by a Mask
At the very moment when mankind is advanced enough to grapple with Artificial Intelligence, gene editing and quantum computing, we’re totally defenseless against a virus - except for a cloth over our face
Gedalia Guttentag
Once upon a Story
Clean Slate
What a great resolution! What a great plan! And what a great year it was going to be!
Rochel Samet
Once upon a Story
Wholes and Holes
Maybe they were just dehydrated — they should go drink some of Mommy’s lemonade and they would stop seeing things 
Penina Steinbruch
Vacancies
Vacancies: Postscript
The Vacancies writers fill in the holes behind the scenes
Family First Contributors
Vacancies
Vacancies: Chapter 13
Those three women and their perfect stores, perfect lives, and a dance studio, it’s perfect, I can’t believe we didn’t think of it before!
Rochel Samet
Magazine Feature
Nachum Sparks and the Mystery of the Missing Menorahs: Part 3 of 4
“And you wonder, Rosen, what I find so endearing about those snails I am — or rather, was — collecting”
Shalva Muschel
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Job Match
After organizing a job fair to help a friend, Shmuel Dovid Berkovicz morphed into a marketplace matchmaker
Yosef Herz
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What Is Saliva? 

Here are some fascinating facts about saliva

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What Makes Us Sneeze?      

I stared at my brother and realized that I had just watched him perform an act of sternutation!

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The average American eats about 140 pounds of potatoes a year

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Baby Teeth      

That got me kind of nervous. Because if Mimi’s teeth can just fall out, could my eyeball fall out? Could my arm fall off?

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Ouch! What Causes a Sunburn?

How I discovered that it’s all about UV rays

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Why Do Our Teeth Fall Out?  

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

By Yael Zoldan