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LifeTakes
Adina Soclof
LifeTakes
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Musings
Yaffa Ganz
Musings
Tzipora Fineman
LifeTakes
Shani Klein
heart to table
I wanted to take the classic chicken soup and give it that Sephardic twist by adding warmth and depth of flavor
Leah Hamaoui
heart to table
In the Sephardic world of flavor, cinnamon is a prominent and essential spice
Leah Hamaoui
Staff Room
A dish that encapsulates generations of keeping Shabbos and following our Sages. And yet, no two cholents are the same
Mishpacha Staff
Staff Room
I always make a big brunch seudah in the morning — two big shakshukas, tons of fresh bread, and lots of fresh, cold grapes and watermelon to help everyone start to hydrate.
Family Table Contributors
Baby Steps
I slowly wrote the rest of my reply, hit send, and opened up a world of possibilities
Helen Shere
Baby Steps
I should probably let the shul know that I won’t be available to host in a few months... But then again...
Helen Shere
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
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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LifeTakes

I am a home day-care provider. I love the kids I spend my day with. It’s some of their mothers that I don’t like. Lots of people annoyed me when I was younger and less experienced — the mother who brought her baby with a dirty diaper every single day, and the ones who dropped off

By Esther Rabi

LifeTakes

Don’t stop laughing because of me.

By Chavi Fuchs

LifeTakes

As I walked across the large stone slabs of the teacher’s entrance, I couldn’t help feeling that I was leaving half my life behind

By Chany. G. Rosengarten

LifeTakes

Emes is not about a crashing orchestra, a vision of high drama. Jewish life is the tiny silver chime of truth.

By Leah Gebber

LifeTakes

“Who will laugh with me when I mention Kalman’s name? Who will chuckle at the memory of the broken vase that I hid under my pillow?”

By Esther Schiff

LifeTakes

Forty years is almost half a century and it’s difficult to remember what brought us together then

By Miriam Klein Adelman