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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
Close Call
Close Call: Afterthoughts
If you’re ashamed to tell people about the friendship, that’s an important sign that shows you don’t feel proud of it
Mrs. Chani Juravel
Close Call
Close Call: Chapter 15
The more time passed, the more clarity I gained about what the problem had been with this friendship in the first place. And in one word, the answer was, “extreme”
Devoiry Braunstein
Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Hidden Assets
I was the stereotypical newlywed, setting up my best friend with my husband’s kid brother
Esty Heller
Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Birthright
Ninth-grade bochurim would huddle in a corner, daring each other to make the plunge and ask Mordy a question
Shmuel Botnick
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
The Story of People
The more we know about people, the more we know about the past. The more we know about the past, the better we are able to assess the present.
Rabbi Berel Wein
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
Anatomy of a Scandal
“This shameful bill passed controversially in the Knesset, is responsible for many premature deaths in dangerously ill people who avoided medical treatment out of fear of the draconian regulations allowing their body to be dissected after death.”
Rabbi Eliyahu Gut
On Our Own Terms
Pitzuchei Mashiach  
Pitzuchei Mashiach is a snacker’s paradise and so much more
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz
On Our Own Terms
The Irv
A 1974 New York Times article touted the Lakewood area as the “most famous winter resort in the east
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz
Halls of Power
Follow the Money? Not So Fast
Who will win the fundraising race, and will it be a determining factor for the outcome in November?
Maury Litwack
Halls of Power
Why 2024 Spells the End of the Squad
The Squad is following in the tracks of other stalled American political movements
Maury Litwack
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