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Peshie Needleman
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Rivka Junger
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Not a Gray Area
“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
Miri Lichtman
The Interior of Design
Seated
“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
Make Her Day: Pesach 5782
Make Her Day: Pesach 5782   
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Ariella Schiller
Election Special
Bibi's Last Battle
If Bibi is serving as a minister, his political life is over. But if he’s the prime minister, he can fight the charges while in office
Eliezer Shulman
Election Special
Crumbling Right
Bibi is like the coach whose team is trailing with less than two minutes to go and has used his last timeout
Binyamin Rose
If Only You Knew
A Policeman in a Typical American City
"There’s a conception out there that policemen walk around shooting wantonly. In my experience and training, that’s hardly the truth"
Chaya Inselburg
On Our Own Terms
Pitzuchei Mashiach  
Pitzuchei Mashiach is a snacker’s paradise and so much more
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz
On Our Own Terms
The Irv
A 1974 New York Times article touted the Lakewood area as the “most famous winter resort in the east
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz
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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