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LifeTakes
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Looking back, I see the power of the past B ais Yaakov Esther Schoenfeld was the high school I attended. Located at 142 Broome Street on the Lower East Side, the building was a renovated former public school, a huge improvement on the ancient and inadequate elementary and high school buildings on East Broadway that
Family Table Contributors
Dinner Diaries
Raizy Gerwitz shows us how to serve up chicken but keep it interesting
Riki Goldstein
Dinner Diaries
In honor of the Nine Days, Michal Goldstein shows us how to do a meat-free week
Riki Goldstein
Impressions
It is my hope that both hosts and guests learn something from the following stories,all of which are based on actual events
Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Impressions
We were connected through old lyrics and new challenges
Liba Mendelson
Year in Review
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
The pandemic hasn’t so much marked the dawning of a new age as accelerated pre-existing trends
Gedalia Guttentag
Medical Mysteries
All the tests came back clear—but something was very wrong
Faigy Peritzman
Medical Mysteries
What was behind my son’s attacks of agonizing pain?
Faigy Peritzman
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