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When Pesach Looms
Miriam Maggid
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The Giving Trees
Maayan David
Family Connections
"My Three-Year-Old's Many Fears"
Whether a three-year-old or 60-year-old is experiencing panicky feelings, the steps to recovery will be similar
Sarah Chana Radcliffe
Family Connections
Children Who Care Only for Themselves
She no longer viewed you as a person made b’tzelem Elokim, let alone a parent
Sarah Chana Radcliffe
Namesakes
Make Me a Corner
"He made a neder that if he got out alive he would dedicate his life to avodas Hashem”
C.S. Teitelbaum
Namesakes
A Bridge Too Far
“I didn’t care how quickly it happened, I was thinking about the future. I wanted it for posterity so that Ari should be remembered every single minute and every single day.”
C.S. Teitelbaum
DMCs
Learning to Fly
“Loser, you’re a loser,” my classmates taunt, pointing at my cleft lip while I shrink into hopeless oblivion
Devorah Grant
DMCs
Losing Game
I would find myself crying not for Kaila and her family, but for the simplicity of my own life before this all happened
Ariella Schiller
Chef
Culinary School and Beyond
This was the first time that working hard, fast, and creatively would get me in trouble.
Chef Suzie Gornish
By the Numbers
All Accounted for: The Conversation Continues
Parental support: readers share their takes
Family First Readers
By the Numbers
All Accounted For
As children become adults, how much do they — and should they — rely on their parents for support? Over 800 parents and children weigh in
Mishpacha Readers
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Encounters
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