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What Is Color Blindness?
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Are Lice in My Hair Alive or Not?        
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Why Do Things Fall?    
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What Falls but Never Hits the Ground?  
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Why don’t your eyelashes grow as fast as your hair?
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Does It Really Matter If My Stovetop Is the Right Temperature?
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The Search: Pesach 5782
Finding Our Past  
Nine writers recount their search for chometz — and what they found
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The Search: Pesach 5782
Give Me Space 
Nine writers recount their search — and what they found
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The Gatekeeper's Daughter
The Gatekeeper's Daughter: Chapter 32
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
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The Gatekeeper's Daughter
The Gatekeeper's Daughter: Chapter 31
She might always be that weird girl who has fallen from a distant star who doesn’t know half of the endless rules
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Making It
Making It
In a monthly series, Mishpacha speaks to real people in our communities who are struggling — and succeeding — to “make it.” Learn their strategies, secrets, fears, and dreams as they share the wealth of their hard-earned experience,
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Making It
Making It: Self-Supporting Singles
It was supposed to happen, but hasn’t yet
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Shared Space
Shared Space: The Follow-Up
As the serial draws to a close, we reached out to voices of authority within the community to discuss some of the underlying threads of Shared Space. This week, Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger weighs in on the issue of hard moneylending
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Shared Space: The Follow-up
Sometimes, the greatest gift parents can give their married children is the freedom to fail
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So why exactly do knuckles crack? And why do people seem to like cracking them?

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

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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!

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