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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
Family First Contributors
War Diaries
Anti-Semitism is a sickness that spreads across the world… even to distant Australia
Sara Bonchek
War Diaries
On October 7, we were hurled back to a time we thought was behind us — and a world that turns a blind eye
Penina Steinbruch
Calligraphy: Succos 5785
“She really has to come live here. She should be near us. What else does she need at this point besides us and our children, her nachas?”
Rivka Streicher
Calligraphy: Succos 5785
“I was in Reb Azarya’s office. You know the picture of the baby on his desk? The picture of… of….” He took a deep breath. “Yisroel?”
Shmuel Botnick
Bentzi and the Mystery in the Museum
I didn’t know what else to say. Poor Asher! How would I feel if I was suddenly cut off from Yoel and Yom Tov and Tulli and all my friends?
Shifra Glick
Bentzi and the Mystery in the Museum
So, can it really be…? No! It seems I was wrong to suspect Shuki. I don’t want to risk suspecting Asher wrongly too
Shifra Glick
Impressions
Why, wondered Rabbi Yishai Kalfa, were there no English seforim highlighting the chashivus of Eretz Yisrael?
Sandy Eller
Impressions
The Last Slave is a story of redemption — and so was the process that got us to the finish line
Y. Kormornick
More Flashback
Flashback

It won’t be summer, it will just be a firefly in a jar. Let the firefly go

By Zivia Reischer

Flashback

“If only he knew how much I needed to hear those exact words”

By Rivka Zahava

Flashback

How I envied the camaraderie he described My father reminisced about the camp that he knew, back in the Old Country, There he sometimes ran barefoot in the long grass — even in the snow! He and his friends would arise before dawn and go on long walks early in the morning while singing the

By Zelda Goldfield

Flashback

I think I have forgotten to turn off the auto-pilot mode of thoughtlessness

By Batya Jacobs

Flashback

“As long as I put my marriage first, I’ll always remain a kallah”

By Faigy Gerstein

Flashback

The horrors of our exile defy my attempts to normalize them

By Leah Gebber