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Cooking School
Like water cooler talk for housewives
Danielle Renov
Cooking School
Does It Really Matter If My Stovetop Is the Right Temperature?
Danielle Renov
Facets
“You find it easy to make friends?” Chana asked me sincerely. “I know how to be friendly, but a friend… I haven’t made one in a long time”
Esther Kurtz
Facets
Was it possible to make a friend in two weeks? Maybe I can get Rafi to change the terms. I really, really wanted to go
Esther Kurtz
Front Row Seat
“A groisse shkoyach. mamush, a groise mitzvah hot ir gehat”
C.S. Teitelbaum
Front Row Seat
Whenever Rabbi Whittow had to buy a new car, the Rosh Yeshivah told him to weigh only two considerations
C.S. Teitelbaum
Send Them Off as Jews
“You know,” I tell them, “what’s important now is just being here.”
Rabbi Daniel Rose
Send Them Off as Jews
Facing the end of life — or even seeing that possibility in the distant future — can be a gift, for all sorts of reasons
Rabbi Daniel Rose
My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
The boys would go home for Pesach and Succos, and the place lost its energy; the town became a shadow of itself
Rivka Streicher
My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
“When I was in seminary at Neve. Going to families for Shabbos was a very cool chavayah that my friends and I took advantage of” Tread Carefully [Conversation Continues / Issue 967] It rankled me to read a letter defending elitism in Bais Yaakovs as being positively motivated, an attempt to protect our children from an
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