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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
Reno Real Talk
Good Things Come in Small Packages     
Every space was maximized in this tiny Brooklyn kitchen
Esti Vago
Reno Real Talk
Stairs to Study 
Could we carve a whole new room out of a set of stairs?
Esti Vago
What I Reaped
Cool It
On Succos, we gather our crops, reflect on our harvest. In life, we gather our experiences, appreciate what we’ve gained
Rivki Silver
What I Reaped
Sweet Endings
On Succos, we gather our crops, reflect on our harvest. In life, we gather our experiences, appreciate what we’ve gained
Chana Marcus
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
Nightmare Come True
When Home Becomes the Front
A day of rejoicing and unity, when families celebrate their shared heritage, became a day of horrific loss and unfathomable mourning
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Nightmare Come True
Fight to the Finish  
Will we succeed in landing a decisive blow against our enemies, and what would an ultimate victory in Gaza look like? Three former National Security Council advisors, and former UN Ambassador Danny Danon, share their views
Binyamin Rose
#In A Word
#connected
The strong trees protruding through the snow and the sun shining through the shadows are a reminder to me that Hashem always provides us with strength and warmth in the coldness of life
Mishpacha Contributors
#In A Word
#hope
If I had to describe the atmosphere at this dinner in Wiesenthal's honor, I would say it was this overwhelming sense of “we have won”
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