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Nechama Norman with Batsheva Berman
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Nechama Norman with Batsheva Berman
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Nechama Norman with Batsheva Berman
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Nechama Norman with Batsheva Berman
Turning Tides
I almost fainted at this blatant anti-Semitism. I quickly ran through appropriate responses in my head, and rejected them all. It would be a waste of breath to even respond
Leah Gebber
Turning Tides
What would Rivka want her bas mitzvah to look like, now that there could be none of the big ideas she’d dreamed about?
Leah Gebber
Family First Serial
She’d never entertained the thought that Abba might genuinely be afraid of someone finding him
Bashie Lisker
Family First Serial
Okay, money. How does a woman conjure half of a couple’s rent money without withdrawing it from the bank?
Esty Heller
Hanging in the Balance: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5784
Sometimes it feels as though your entire future hinges on an upcoming verdict that will change everything. 4 stories of women left hanging in the balance
Family First Readers
Sound Bites
With wisdom, humor, and a passion to help his contemporaries, he’s embarked on a mission to help other zaidies make the most of the time they have in the best years of their lives
Chaia Frishman
Sound Bites
I remember that feeling of drowning after I had my second baby in Israel, 14 months after my first. I didn’t want anyone else to experience that helpless feeling
Chaia Frishman
Off the Couch
“You maligned us! You broke our confidentiality! You terrible, terrible man!”  
Jacob L. Freedman MD
Off the Couch
I was a bit overwhelmed myself — it’s not every day you see a person so candidly willing to admit his pain or weakness
Jacob L. Freedman MD
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You may think you know everything about your spouse. But when you go house-shopping together, there are bound to be differences and surprises

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“You can do this!” I told her. “Take all the laundry — clean, dirty, all of it — and put it in baskets in your car”

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The doctor had just gotten married, and his wife detested his house; they wanted to sell it along with most of the furniture in it

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I was thrilled to pass the test. But there were hundreds of dos and don’ts I’d need to pick up on my own

By Nechama Norman with Batsheva Berman

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I felt my shoulders lift when she spoke. I had the Rebbetzin’s brachah — and assurance — that I’d go far

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