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Spirit and Sparks
Are self-improvement courses really a path in avodas Hashem?
Baila Vorhand
Spirit and Sparks
The menorah brightens corners the Shabbos candles can't reach
Baila Vorhand
My Corona Time Capsule
Endless days blurred into months of upheaval. We strove to forge forward. Twenty-one readers reveal the single object that defined the tenor of these times
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Free Fall
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
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
Miriam Stark Zakon
Veiled Joy
The two of us stood under our chuppah, enjoying the wedding we’d planned in just 24 hours
Josh Clark
Veiled Joy
Fear was beginning to creep into our conversations. Would there be flights? Should everyone leave now?
Millie Samson
Namesakes
"He made a neder that if he got out alive he would dedicate his life to avodas Hashem”
C.S. Teitelbaum
Namesakes
“I didn’t care how quickly it happened, I was thinking about the future. I wanted it for posterity so that Ari should be remembered every single minute and every single day.”
C.S. Teitelbaum
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