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Musings
Esther Ilana Rabi
LifeTakes
Rivka Levitan
Musings
Yaffa Ganz
LifeTakes
T. Goldner
LifeTakes
Beth Rachael Shapiro
Tribute
Rabbi Aaron Kotler bids goodbye to Lakewood’s quintessential askan Reb Yisroel Schenkolewski
Rabbi Aaron Kotler
Tribute
The Kossover Rebbe tackled the thorniest issues dragging down the generation while pulling thousands to the Heavens
Tzvi Askal
Feel the Heat
I was also a bit nervous because my sister Ruchama, who I’m facing off against, is a fantastic cook and baker
chananya eisenberger and ruchama yellin
Feel the Heat
Both my father and I love playing around in the kitchen, and we also both have a competitive streak
Shuey Vago
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
Counter Point
Our Succos supplement Yiddishe Gelt, about the price of frum life today, drew significant and spirited feedback. Here is a sampling
Mishpacha Readers
Counter Point
"The discrepancy between the rebbeim and teachers’ gifts is definitely not warranted"
Mishpacha Readers
Split
People expected me to have a holy perspective about our children’s conditions from the beginning
Musia Slavin
Split
At nine days old — an incredibly young age for a child with both a cleft lip and a cleft palate! — they weaned Tali off the feeding tube
Musia Slavin
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An overwhelming emotion filled me. It almost washed me away, a joy so pure I began to laugh. I could come up with no words for it then, and I still can’t, but it was joy, joy, joy — an indescribable, undiluted, thrilled joy that filled up my whole self and overflowed from my eyes

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Welcome aboard Flight 517, and thanks for flying Ameri-delt UniLines!” In my other incarnation, I’m a travel agent. I specialize in group trips to Israel, but in essence, I’m an accessory to aeronautical misery,

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LifeTakes

Complain? Never! What’s two days spent in excruciating labor; what’s some minor (okay, extreme) sleep deprivation when it’s part of the precious package of motherhood?,Lifetakes: Operation Triple T,Complain? Never! What’s two days spent in excruciating labor; what’s some minor (okay, extreme) sleep deprivation when it’s part of the precious package of motherhood?

By Yehudis Lieber