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Helen Shere
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Take 5
Branding tips for staying ahead of the pack
Shira Isenberg, RD, MPH and Yitzchok Saftlas
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Find people who help you do what you need to do better
Shira Isenberg, RD, MPH and Yitzchok Saftlas
Cooks Compete
Corn salad is an easy side dish to turn to when you need something quick and easy
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Cooks Compete
It started Erev Pesach with a bottle of olive oil. “What are we having for dessert?” I muttered to myself as I looked at my laptop. My last-days-of-Pesach menu stared back at me, every meal planned with dips, soup, main, and sides. My husband and I had agreed to host last-minute guests for meals, and
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Free Fall
Freefall took me 12 months — and 25 years — to write. Now that it’s over, while other old and new responsibilities bang at my door, I’ll ignore the knocking for a bit and share a short retrospective on life during Freefall
Miriam Stark Zakon
Free Fall
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
Miriam Stark Zakon
The Last Flask
And then they found it — the last flask, the small bottle that would enable them to start anew. 12 writers share the last flask that lit up their own lives rattle of hope
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Split
People expected me to have a holy perspective about our children’s conditions from the beginning
Musia Slavin
Split
At nine days old — an incredibly young age for a child with both a cleft lip and a cleft palate! — they weaned Tali off the feeding tube
Musia Slavin
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