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A dish that encapsulates generations of keeping Shabbos and following our Sages. And yet, no two cholents are the same
Mishpacha Staff
Staff Room
I always make a big brunch seudah in the morning — two big shakshukas, tons of fresh bread, and lots of fresh, cold grapes and watermelon to help everyone start to hydrate.
Family Table Contributors
The Lens
Their departure from the dining room took well over an hour
Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz
The Lens
While he has passed on to the Next World, the photo captures his otherworldly chein for posterity
Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz
All in a Day's Work
If you could work anywhere for a day, what would you choose? 6 Writers. 6 Jobs.  6 Adventures
Family First Contributors
FYI
Even though it’s not a medical condition, it’s not easy to be a teenager with hair getting thinner and thinner
Shoshana Itzkowitz
FYI
An eating disorder is a mental illness where a person refuses to eat or eats as minimally as they can
Shoshana Itzkowitz
Editors Note
Whether we promote ourselves on Instagram or not, we all already have a unique brand of our own — because Hashem made us that way.
Alex Abel
Editors Note
When I get to that place, I remember that Hashem has a plan tailor-made for me
Alex Abel
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M y father, Melvin S. Landow z”l, grew up impoverished, in a tenement in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood. From the age of nine, he worked to help support his family, offering his services first as a shoeshine boy, then delivering newspapers, then as a “barker” at the famed Coney Island amusement park. (His trademark “bark”

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Working in an environment where I was constantly exposed to death and the fragility of life, I began to understand that we are all in G-d’s hands

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She wasn’t expected to survive her first day, and certainly not her first week, but to the surprise of the doctors, she did. We named her Chaya

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“What zechus did my mother have? Well, the only zechus of hers that I can think of is that she wasn’t cremated”

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With little family support in Israel, we found ourselves at loggerheads much of the time, and our relationship was under continual strain

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Then, one Friday, my father called to tell me that my mother needed someone to spend Shabbos with her in the hospital

By C. Saphir