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Growth Through Connection
Rabbi Reuven Leuchter
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Creating Family Connection
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Outside the Glass    
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Branching Out: Part 3 of 4
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Entering Hashem’s World  
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Survival on a Promise
What happened to the Aleppo's historic Jewish sites, including the Great Synagogue of Aleppo?
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When Words Fail  
Artists from around the world give their own expression to the horrors of October 7
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"I Think Pull Is…"     
Protektzia is baked into our society. Should it be?
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The Parents' Role in Homework Is…  
Kids are overwhelmed, parents are overworked. Just whose job is this homework, anyway?
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Family Matters
The Fading Light: Chapter 24
He always thought of everything, so I didn’t have to. Now it was my job, and it was daunting
Joan Zlotnick
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A Fading Light: Chapter 23
At a particular stage of my husband’s illness, it became clear that the shul we were attending no longer met our needs
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Self, Sacrificed: Reader Roundtable
The making of a martyr
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The Ball I Dropped 
14 women give us a look at the balls they’re keeping in the air — and the ones they’re letting go of for now
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Dear Readers
An Honest Discussion
I'm already imagining the letters we'll get in response to this week's cover story
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Be Steadfast Like a Tree: Part 2 of 4

If a tree trunk is mostly dead, what’s the secret of its living strength? 

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Trees Teach Us about Growth

We need to identify our own metaphorical roots, trunk, and branches

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The Simchah of Lag B’omer

Hashem has a plan for the world, and through everything He does, He imperceptibly guides the world toward its purpose

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Larger Than Life

We view other people from the vantage point of our own lives

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Keep the Future in Focus

It couldn’t be clearer that this sudden pandemic of anti-Semitism was orchestrated by HaKadosh Baruch Hu

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Lightening the Load

You can’t share your friend’s burden until you open your mind to his plight

By Rabbi Reuven Leuchter