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When the President Came to Shul
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
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When the Founding Fathers Spoke Yiddish
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
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The Torah Leadership of Rav Elye Pruzhaner
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
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A Place Called the Pletzl
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
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Signed in Knyszyn, Sealed in Eternity
Dovid Safier and Yehuda Geberer
Shul of My Youth
Open House
Rabbi Paysach Krohn remembers the shul of his youth
Baila Rosenbaum
Shul of My Youth
Lined Up Around the Block
For some reason my father chose to become a member at Dukes Place, and that was our shul
Riki Goldstein
Freeze Frame
Newness in the Details
I often search for ways to add freshness to days that feel boring
Russy Tendler
Freeze Frame
Becoming a Vessel
I want to become a vessel ready to catch and contain the brachah around me
Russy Tendler
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Ask the Expert: How to Bake Best
"A forgotten postcard from 1935 Knyszyn helped shape the future of Torah in America" Title: Signed in Knyszyn, Sealed in Eternity Location: Knyszyn Document: Postcard to the Vaad Hayeshivos Time: 1935   Among the graves in the Holon Cemetery in central Israel stand many special stone memorials — each a silent eulogy for a town that once pulsed with
Leah Reisman
Shul with a View
The Secret
“Private Diary of Bernard J. Blusting, not to be read by my family”
Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Shul with a View
The Walkie-Talkies
Our child prodigy sat assuredly as the names of the various awards were called
Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
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Driver’s View
In the taxi world, drivers are divided as to whether a “real” nahag uses Waze. For these veterans who know the city’s every highway and byway, the consensus is clear: real drivers don’t rely on it
Yaacov Lipszyc
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Pathways of Peace
Love of the land has been infused in Shuki’s blood since birth; he’s the right man for our challenge
Ariella Schiller
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The Long Gray Line Ends in Israel

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In the winter of 1916, amid the economic pressures of immigrant life, a dispute erupted on Rivington Street 

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The Galicia–Vienna–Tel Aviv Express

Over seven decades after the Ruzhiner’s midnight ride from Russia to Austria, his descendants were to complete his journey

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