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Windows
Ode to a Cheap Flowerpot
Esther Shemtov
Words Unspoken
To My Dearest Children
Anonymous
Family Tempo
High Stakes   
Ahuva Levy
LifeTakes
A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance
P. Diamond
Family Tempo
Sell Out
Ariella Schiller
Year in Review
Year in Review: Metro and Beyond
5780 was probably the toughest year in decades in the US, but it was also a year full of heroes
Yochonon Donn
Year in Review
Year in Review: Eye on Europe
The pandemic hasn’t so much marked the dawning of a new age as accelerated pre-existing trends
Gedalia Guttentag
Open Mic
Enough Is Never Enough    
Ask your spouse. Ask your children. If they feel safe enough to be honest, they’ll tell you whether your ambition inspires them or isolates them
Rabbi Yaakov Barr
Open Mic
Calendar Conundrum
It isn’t actually a new issue. It comes up every few years when Elul falls out so early on the secular calendar
Anonymous
Battle Cry
A Kosher Home  
“Mi l’Hashem elai!” In every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem
Elana Moskowitz
Battle Cry
Bills of Life
“Mi l’Hashem elai!” In every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem
Malkie Schulman
Off the Record
Au Revoir, Rav Yisrael
What brought Rav Yisrael Salanter to secularized Paris in his last years?
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
Off the Record
What Is Your Favorite Song and Why? 
Everyone has their favorite songs, but have you ever wondered about the people who actually create their own music — the singers, composers, producers, lyricists?
Rochel Burstyn
Blueprint
No Two Tests Are the Same
With her on my team, I knew I’d lose the deal “Today I looked at the bathtub and thought ‘You can totally fit a bassinet in there.’” My long-suffering husband looks at me. “Rachelli. We are not putting our child in the bathtub, okay? He or she will sleep in our room until we have
Rabbi Yaakov Feitman
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Still a Sacrifice  

I was once that girl, ready to sacrifice all that was familiar and comfortable in America to support my husband’s Torah learning

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Bli Ayin Hara   

Optimism? It clashed with my inculcated weltanschauung, that of straight-up fear

By Lea Pavel

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A Curious Buzz Word

If I flip out, as I sometimes, um, rarely, do, could it be that this was too close to home?

By Peshie Needleman

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I took another glance at the blue sea just out the window, and thought of the Jews crossing the Yam Suf

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Of Friends and Favors   

Could I do this favor with a smile?

By Chana Goodman

Musings
Trajectory of a Little Something

Surely, having returned the pouch to its owner, you will never see this pouch again

By Esty Heller