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All I Need to Know I Learned in a Parking Lot
Peshie Needleman
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The Maestro
Norma L. Noiman
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Chanukah with Klal Yisrael
Ann Goldberg
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What Saved You, Saved Us
Devorah Stettin
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A Guarded Night
Rivka Junger
Impressions
The Gift of Silence    
What words can possibly fix loss? We speak in these situations because we feel uncomfortable not to
Binyomin Yudin 
Impressions
The Rhythm of Repentance 
in the pleasant afterglow of Yom Kippur we are happy to just sit in the moment with our mitzvos
Moshe Krakowski
Parallel Journeys
A Split in the Road
I look at my face in those pictures and see my innocence: How I thought things would stay that way forever, sharing a journey with Etty, sharing our lives.
Faigy Schonfeld
Parallel Journeys
Lost in the Woods
Good girls don’t ask, I was told
Esty Mandelbaum
Pesach Without Pressure
Pesach Without Pressure: Laya Appelbaum
Windex — it’s all about happy Jews and Windex.
Bracha Stein
Pesach Without Pressure
If you’re getting frustrated, you’re probably spring-cleaning
Bracha Stein
Food that Packs
Ramen à la Vodka
“If you won’t give me potatoes, then I’ll have to manage without any food.I have never eaten chometz on Pesach, and I will not start now” T he year is 1944, before Pesach. At the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a group of rabbanim — including the recently interned Rav Moshe Stern, who will later serve as Debrecener
Rivky Kleiman
Food that Packs
Grilled Eggplant Parmesan Sandwich
“If you won’t give me potatoes, then I’ll have to manage without any food.I have never eaten chometz on Pesach, and I will not start now” T he year is 1944, before Pesach. At the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a group of rabbanim — including the recently interned Rav Moshe Stern, who will later serve as Debrecener
Rivky Kleiman
Battle Cry
A Kosher Home  
“Mi l’Hashem elai!” In every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem
Elana Moskowitz
Battle Cry
Bills of Life
“Mi l’Hashem elai!” In every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem
Malkie Schulman
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Miracle after Miracle

Who was Reb Shaya Blau a”h, and how did he save so many from the Churban in Europe?

By H. Vogel

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Eyes Wide Shut

I can sense she’s enamored of our kollel lifestyle, about the simplicity, about the inner happiness that radiates from our home. So perhaps I should disillusion her

By Elana Rothberg

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When Pesach Looms

It’s not shopping or outfitting the kids. It’s not any of that. Those things — I can handle those things. They’re easy. They’re Normal People Problems. Unlike mine…

By Miriam Maggid

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The Giving Trees

Chemist and plant researcher Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, president of the island nation of Mauritius, is on a mission to harness the properties of ancient healing plants near extinction

By Maayan David