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Yaakov Ganz
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Back Where She Wouldn’t Go
Riki Goldstein
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Echoes From Lublin
Close to a century later, we're still singing the songs of a visionary scholar, builder, and leader.
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Soft Yesses and Blocked Numbers | Take Rabbi Tzadok Katz, Rabbi Meir Levi & Rabbi Shlomo Lewenstein
When your work puts you inside some of the most sensitive situations in our community, how can you keep from burning out?
Yisroel Besser
Uncomplicated
Supper in Seconds
Zev Chanoch (Jabo) Ehrlich a"h, the oldest military casualty of the current war A venerated researcher of Eretz Yisrael and a prodigious talmid chacham, Zev Chanoch (Jabo) Ehrlich was granted access by the IDF to the most complex archaeological and historical sites, even in enemy terrain. Then came his final mission: While investigating an ancient fortress
Faigy Grossmann
Portrait of a Family
Portrait of a Family: Chapter 32    
“Hmm?” Tamar replied, closing her binder and looking up to see who was calling her name. Oh, Michal
Malka Grunhaus
Portrait of a Family
Portrait of a Family: Chapter 28 
Even with all the arguing, she thought, the table felt so… friendly. They could say whatever they wanted; the warmth, the love, was still there
Malka Grunhaus
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Having a Preemie 
I wasn’t ready to have this baby, but I would have to rise to the occasion
Shoshana Gross
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Windfall 
I spent my childhood and young adulthood scrimping and saving. But then, everything changed
Shoshana Gross
The Road Home
The Road Home: Chapter 10
And I… I’m okay being me, even if I’m not entirely sure who that is
Malka Winner
The Road Home
The Road Home: Chapter 8
Somehow, it’s deeply reassuring that the people packing us up are Our People
Malka Winner
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BLOOD! Had I made a mistake in coming? I didn’t know if I could bear seeing that

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“Rabbi, I want to tell you a story that happened to me when I was boy, growing up in Eretz Yisrael”

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All she wants is a trip to Lancaster and not some designer bag that costs as much as a round trip ticket to Aruba

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All we knew when we booked was that we were going to be wined and dined and our children would have fun

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My Pet Peeve   

I can survive this, I assure myself. It’s okay — by tomorrow, this fish will be gone

By Goldie Hirsch