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Flashback: Editor’s Letter, Issue 788
Bassi Gruen
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Family First Editor’s Letter: Issue 788
Bassi Gruen
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“I Quit!”
Bassi Gruen
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Family First Editor’s Letter: 727
Bassi Gruen
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A Taste of Success
Bassi Gruen
From My Table
Family Table: Copycat Peach Snapple
When the menus are done, the fridge is full, and the tables are set, having a few minutes to make a great drink that everyone will enjoy is the cherry on top.
Chanie Nayman
From My Table
From my Table: Babka Squares
This (relatively) quick and easy recipe is really good and really disappearing!
Chanie Nayman
The Beat
Know Your Foe
A rogues’ gallery of anti-Israel voices around the world
Yaakov Lipszyc
The Beat
Imperial Ambition
Five challenges facing Ukraine, two years into a war whose direction few can predict
Yaakov Lipszyc
Read-Along Storytime
Crash and Credit
“Let’s make a carnival! We’ll charge an entry fee, and make loads of cash!”
R. Atkins
Read-Along Storytime
Hot and Cold
While working on our “Impressions” theme, I found myself thinking about that cholent "We really enjoyed your cholent.” The sweet newlywed we’d had for the Shabbos seudah was on the line. “Can you give me the recipe?” “Sure. First sauté lots of onion and garlic…” As I spoke, my mind wandered to my own shanah
R. Atkins
Tempo: Second Guessing
A Weekend Away: Readers join the conversation       
“Who said their convenience should take precedence over the girls’ convenience?”
Ariella Schiller
Tempo: Second Guessing
A Weekend Away
Our ALL WEEK OF LIVING it up (AWOL) trip. For singles who need to get away, all coordinated by yours truly
Ariella Schiller
A Stone’s Throw
A Stone’s Throw: Chapter 8
“Something happened today and I need your advice. Would I be able to come over to your house and show you something?”
Faigy Gold
A Stone’s Throw
A Stone’s Throw: Chapter 7
As I passed, I nodded hello and even ventured a “Chodesh tov.” He looked at me, and suddenly held up his hand. The whole line stopped
Faigy Gold
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