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What Is Color Blindness?
Yael Zoldan
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Are Lice in My Hair Alive or Not?        
Yael Zoldan
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Why Do Things Fall?    
Yael Zoldan
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What Falls but Never Hits the Ground?  
Yael Zoldan
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Why don’t your eyelashes grow as fast as your hair?
Yael Zoldan
Parshah
Parshas Emor, 5785
Counting of the Omer mustn’t only be quantitatively complete, but also qualitatively complete
Faigy Peritzman
Parshah
Parshas Acharei Mos-Kedoshim, 5785
The core of our relationships with our fellow Jews are the things that we don’t do to each other
Faigy Peritzman
Sirens at Ne'ilah
Settling Unfinished Scores
A half century after the guns fell silent over Sinai and the Golan, revisiting the climactic scenes on the front and those inside the heart
Binyamin Rose
Sirens at Ne'ilah
Tears and Tehillim
As sirens wailed, soldiers mobilized, and an entire nation was gripped by fear, how did the Torah world’s leaders respond?
Meir Gold and Yair Stern
Behind the Book
The Captives  
Against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush, life on a Louisiana plantation, and Cherokee clan rivalries, the characters struggle with their own family dramas and dilemmas
Riki Goldstein
Behind the Book
Abandoned
M. Kenan shows her versatility as an author, crossing cultural worlds with integrity while remaining in the modern age
Riki Goldstein
Change of Heart
Change of Heart: Epilogue
I do have a new understanding of how the world works. I knew it all along, but it’s a little more real to me now
Leora Hammer
Change of Heart
Change of Heart: Chapter 10
I didn’t want to do it in fear. I wanted to do it with trust. The ride of my life
Leora Hammer
Moonlight
Purim 2025: The Final Edition
We look to Queen Esther’s tefillos for guidance on how to deal with current events
Rabbi Menachem Nissel
Moonlight
Is He My Bashert?
If you’re not looking for Heavenly signs if the boy you’re dating is your zivug, what approach should you take?
Rabbi Menachem Nissel
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Why Are Some People Lefties?

Being a lefty is pretty rare. Only around 10 percent of the population is left-handed

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What Is a Yawn?  

The first and simplest reason why people yawn is because they’re tired

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Why do people get the shivers?

Sometimes we shiver even though it has nothing to do with our bodies. Sometimes we shiver because of our feelings! Why was the baby jalapeno shivering? He was a little chili. Hello Kiddos, this is Professor Mordy Maven, Thinker, Wonderer, and Figure-Outer of all things Science-ish. What that basically means is I try really hard

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So why exactly do knuckles crack? And why do people seem to like cracking them?

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Why Don’t You Laugh When You Tickle Yourself?

The thing about tickling is it’s actually only funny if you’re not expecting it

By Yael Zoldan

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Why Do Onions Make You Cry?

Vegetables don’t make you cry? I’ll bet they would if you were chopping onions!

By Yael Zoldan