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What Am I Doing in Murfreesboro?
Rabbi Akiva Males
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In the Sea  
Ariella Mendel
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A Gentle Fire: The Legacy of the Chuster Rebbe
Rabbi Noach Shapiro
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Clothing Makes a People   
Russy Tendler
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The Wedding Guest
Riki Goldstein
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No Right of Return
That refusal to accept Israel’s existence is why there is no peace
Yonoson Rosenblum
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The Mullahs Will Never Abandon Their Goal
The Khomeinist vision requires spreading Islam everywhere and eliminating Israel
Yonoson Rosenblum
Free Fall
Jumping Into Freefall: An Author Looks Back
Freefall took me 12 months — and 25 years — to write. Now that it’s over, while other old and new responsibilities bang at my door, I’ll ignore the knocking for a bit and share a short retrospective on life during Freefall
Miriam Stark Zakon
Free Fall
Freefall: Chapter 55
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
Miriam Stark Zakon
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Love in a Bowl
I wanted to take the classic chicken soup and give it that Sephardic twist by adding warmth and depth of flavor
Leah Hamaoui
heart to table
Secret Spice Keftas
In the Sephardic world of flavor, cinnamon is a prominent and essential spice
Leah Hamaoui
Looking Back Looking Forward
Lightbulbs
Read on for some cool info about the lightbulbs
B.Deer
Looking Back Looking Forward
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Thermometers
What kind of thermometer(s) have you used this year?
B.Deer
About-Face
Reaching for the High Notes
In the spirit of V’nahafoch hu, Mishpacha contributors share the axioms they were sure of…until they weren’t
Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger
About-Face
Going Home
In the spirit of V’nahafoch hu, Mishpacha contributors share the axioms they were sure of…until they weren’t
Yael Schuster
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They learned with an intensity; they flew in the heavens above the desert. And finally Chaim knew why he had to come on the trip

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