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Joan Zlotnick
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Joan Zlotnick
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Joan Zlotnick
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Joan Zlotnick
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Joan Zlotnick
Calligraphy: Succos 5785
“She really has to come live here. She should be near us. What else does she need at this point besides us and our children, her nachas?”
Rivka Streicher
Calligraphy: Succos 5785
“I was in Reb Azarya’s office. You know the picture of the baby on his desk? The picture of… of….” He took a deep breath. “Yisroel?”
Shmuel Botnick
Teen Serial
“Meeting Shan’s mother feels more like a job interview with a boss who already hates you”
Ariella Schiller
Teen Serial
Hashem, I whisper, please help me. I have no idea what to do. I don’t want to hurt anybody. And I’m just really, really tired
Ariella Schiller
Deep Dive
A real Jewish leader allows everyone to feel accepted and welcomed.
Tamar Skydell 
Deep Dive
From beer to Barclays, Azriel Chelst is strategizing behind the scenes and netting partnerships with a Torah mindset
Mimi Minsky
Family First Inbox
“Losing weight without exercise isn’t impossible, but it is harmful”
Family First Readers
Family First Inbox
“I didn’t just cover up my condition from the people in my life, but even from myself”
Family First Readers
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
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Had the situation been reversed, I know that my husband z”l would’ve taken even better care of me than I did of him

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I think the reason she chose me to be her confidante is obvious: I’d been a caregiver. I’d been there. I would get it

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Once again, though, my assumption that this was the worst thing you could ever do to a loved one proved false

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After about a year, it became clear to me that my husband belonged in a day-care program, but, of course, this was not something he’d agree to — and I knew better than to suggest it

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I know this sounds unbelievable. A doctor who, for a year, would advise me — a person he’d never met — over the phone about a patient he had never seen?

By Joan Zlotnick

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In these instances, my instinct to spare my children and grandchildren was outweighed by my desperation

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