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Under the Surface   
Avigayil Turner
LifeTakes
Time to Grow
Sara Katz
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Where She Shines
Ariella Schiller
Musings
Discipline and Dessert
Lea Pavel
Musings
Mothers as Mirrors
Mindy Berger
Facets
Facets: Chapter 26
“You find it easy to make friends?” Chana asked me sincerely. “I know how to be friendly, but a friend… I haven’t made one in a long time”
Esther Kurtz
Facets
Facets: Chapter 24
Was it possible to make a friend in two weeks? Maybe I can get Rafi to change the terms. I really, really wanted to go
Esther Kurtz
Namesakes
Make Me a Corner
"He made a neder that if he got out alive he would dedicate his life to avodas Hashem”
C.S. Teitelbaum
Namesakes
A Bridge Too Far
“I didn’t care how quickly it happened, I was thinking about the future. I wanted it for posterity so that Ari should be remembered every single minute and every single day.”
C.S. Teitelbaum
Stopover
Full Circle 
The 53,000-square-foot Friendship Circle of New Jersey (FCNJ) is unlike anything I’ve seen before
Sivan Rahav-Meir
Stopover
Never Too Late
Sivan Rahav-Meir finds common ground wherever she lands
Sivan Rahav-Meir
Summer Job
Summer Job
Those short jobs that helped shape and mold the adults we are today
Mishpacha Contributors
Summer Job
Waiting It Out
Waitressing required a completely different skill set than passing AP exams and Regents
Barbara Bensoussan
Ask the Expert
Ask the Expert: How to Bake Best
Some moms are all grown up, raising children Mary Poppins-style. But the rest of us are raising our young while raising ourselves Ever find yourself looking for a mirror but there isn’t one nearby? Just go over to your child, look into her eyes, and there, you’ll see your reflection. If you’re afraid, you’ll see
Leah Reisman
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Rorschach

What kind of painting was that? And wasn’t it upside down?

By Rochel Neustadt

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Of Nest Eggs and Chickens

All the things I’ve been begging for, planning for…. The things I’ve been dreaming about, the Oorah auction tickets I’ve invested in

By Zahava Robbins

Windows
An Optician’s View

From time to time, the glasses slipped off and the panorama became markedly different

By Pam Russ

Words Unspoken
Dear Seminary Teachers

They’re panicked about shidduchim. And the panic is contagious

By Anonymous

Musings
A Song in the Night 

I try to pull myself together, when I hear it. Somebody outside, strains of song. I open the window and a voice carries inside. “Mah nishtanah halaylah hazeh, halaylah hazeh…”

By Rivka Streicher

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Ink and Stones 

 It cannot be. Even when he goes outside and the woman calls his name he does not believe it is them. He looks at the children. A boy, perhaps six years old, with long peyos. A little girl

By Leah Gebber