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Growth Through Connection

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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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Tribute

Twenty years after Rav Wolbe’s passing, his grandson reflects and remembers

Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

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So Strong Yet So Simple

Rav Nota Schiller ztz"l, founder of Ohr Somayach, spent the last 50 years in the forefront of the kiruv movement

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The Struggle Is the Goal

The Struggle Is the Goal: Driven to the Edge

We each have our own private quests, those goals we tried — or keep trying — to achieve. As we struggle and strive, the process becomes its own destination

Ahuva Holzer

The Struggle Is the Goal

The Struggle Is the Goal: Got a Match

We each have our own private quests, those goals we tried — or keep trying — to achieve. As we struggle and strive, the process becomes its own destination

Yosef Zoimen

F is for Friendship

“But, but….” I sounded like the sputtering last cup of soda in a slush machine. “That doesn’t make any sense,” I finally said

Ruchama Schnaidman

F is for Friendship

F is for Friendship

Tzivi wasn’t the writer, I thought. I glanced around the classroom. That left twenty-two other girls. Well, twenty-one because it wasn’t Penina

Ruchama Schnaidman

Jolly Solly

The troublesome two faced each other, fists clenched — but were distracted by Jolly Solly’s voice nearby

R. Atkins

Jolly Solly

“Burst pipe!” he called to his fellow workmen inside. “Somebody turn off the water mains!”

R. Atkins

FF Theme: Enduring Kindness

Enduring Kindness

16 stories of gestures small and large, whose warmth lingers long afterward

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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

By Rabbi Reuven Leuchter

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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