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Holy Heroine of the Maghreb
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Opening the Gates of Shaare Zedek
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The Holy Crown of Brownsville
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Misunderstood Mekubal
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What Makes Fireflies Light Up?
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What Are Freckles?  
To understand freckles, we need to learn a little bit about melanin
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Lost and Found: Chanukah Theme 5783
Lost and Found
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Pesach Cleaning in Minutes
Pesach Cleaning in Minutes: Week 3
Under the charismatic leadership of Rav Nosson Adler (1741–1800), a young cadre of followers studied mysticism and engaged in Kabbalistic customs Title: Misunderstood Mekubal Location: Frankfurt, Germany Document: Frankfurt Memorbuch Time: 1800 “IT is appropriate for me to cry and deliver a hesped. I witnessed him studying and teaching as Moshe Rabbeinu did from Hashem.
Yael Wiesner
Pesach Cleaning in Minutes
Pesach Cleaning in Minutes: Week 2
Under the charismatic leadership of Rav Nosson Adler (1741–1800), a young cadre of followers studied mysticism and engaged in Kabbalistic customs Title: Misunderstood Mekubal Location: Frankfurt, Germany Document: Frankfurt Memorbuch Time: 1800 “IT is appropriate for me to cry and deliver a hesped. I witnessed him studying and teaching as Moshe Rabbeinu did from Hashem.
Yael Wiesner
Earth to Zalmi
Far from Home
I’ll be sitting on a spaceship for five days until I reach Boruch’s planet
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Final Chapter, New Beginnings
As the American chapter of the book on Jonathan Pollard is coming to a close, a new, more hopeful sequel is about to be written
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Birthright Restored
Ari Zivotofsky’s 18-year battle finally ends with “Israel” listed on his son’s passport
Ari Z. Zivotofsky and Naomi Zivotofsky
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The House of Chernobyl was founded by Rav Menachem Nochum Twersky, a talmid of the Baal Shem Tov

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For some four decades, Slabodka yeshivah alumni held an annual convention on or near 29 Shevat

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The Rav Hanazir

“I didn’t realize that live mekubalim still walked the streets of Yerushalayim until I encountered the Nazir”

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