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Sara Glaz
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Barbara Bensoussan
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Barbara Bensoussan
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Shoshana R. Meiri
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Margie Pensak
Unsustainable
How a sweeping trend to spend risks toppling everything we’ve built
Mishpacha Contributors
Unsustainable
What happens when money reshapes not just our definition of success, but our very identity?
Yitzchok Landa
Why Is This Pesach Different?
“We’re used to huge numbers of deliveries for Pesach; we were prepared for that. We have extra vans. Delivery is not the issue. The issue is getting all those orders together."
Margie Pensak
Why Is This Pesach Different?
Do you have what it takes to say thank you Hashem when things aren’t going the way you hoped they would?
Yisroel Besser
One of the Flock
He had the smallest shofar I had ever seen, but the sound he produced was deafening
Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan
One of the Flock
Which members of the flock still shape your Rosh Hashanah?
Mishpacha Contributors
heartbeats
In the litvish enclave of Baltimore, Rebbetzin Malka Fayga Taub, wife of the Brider Rav, holds steadfast to her mesorah, radiating chassidish varmkeit to every Jew. Hundreds of guests crowded around the kallah’s chair. The air was filled with mazel tov exclamations and the heady scent of flowers. Through the rainbow of color, I noticed
Refoel Pride
Akeida Moments
Sometimes I’d believe I could slip into it, if I could just find the portal to enter. A place that would accept me, quirks and all.
Esther Kurtz
Akeida Moments
“I accept Your Will Hashem,” I whispered, “I accept this nisayon, please just give me the koach.”
Avigayil Wein
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Open Heart ,Miriam Lowenbraun’s untimely passing two days before Shavuos plunged thousands into mourning. Miriam was not only born into Torah royalty, she perpetuated it. As her uncle Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski said, “Mimi… taught us what it means to have a firm emunah in HaKadosh Baruch Hu.”

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The day I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease was one of the worst of my life. Yet it ultimately led me to help thousands of people around the world cope with the disorder

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When Mordechai took up residence on a Hindu ashram in India, I closed my siddur, and raised my arms in surrender

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She might be your boss, your sheitelmacher, or your daughter’s teacher. At mega-family reunions people are meeting acquaintances they never knew were part of their mishpachah. 

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Rebbetzin Kamenetsky is a unique portrait of bein adam laMakom and bein adam l’chaveiro uniting in harmony. Here are her words, her wisdom, and the loving testimony of her distinguished children

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