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C. Saphir
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C. Saphir
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
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
Tempo: Second Guessing
When I tell Shmuel that I want to host, he thinks I’m a few flowers short of a full bouquet
Ariella Schiller
Tempo: Second Guessing
All I can think is... Should I have done  anything differently?
Ariella Schiller
EndNote
Is there a special niggun that has transformed your classroom?
Riki Goldstein
Recipes
“I tell you, geirim have bad blood. I’ve known a few of them, and I see that they usually revert to their old lifestyle.” She went on and on, bringing examples to prove her ridiculous accusations. I stood rooted to the spot, not believing my ears M y mother hid her non-Jewish background even before
Chaya Surie Goldberger
Screenshot
maybe it’s time for Israel to reexamine an old, knotty dilemma: Which comes first, the country’s Jewishness or its democracy?
Shoshana Friedman
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It will take wisdom, foresight, and some soul-searching from both the top and the grassroots to address those changes.
Shoshana Friedman
Theme Section: Open Secrets
So many of us carry secrets — some heavy, some light. Some that mean nothing, and some that change everything. Six writers tell stories of secrets kept, shared, and revealed
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My panic attacks became regular occurrences. I’d get upset about something someone did wrong, or about something I myself did wrong, and boom, the attack would start

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I had never seen or experienced thirst and passion for doing mitzvos — a passion that was riveting, and addictive.

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Elisheva was the frummest of all our children, exemplary in her tefillah, her chesed, her middos. We called her “the rebbetzin”

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None of the other doctors had thought to test for Cushing’s disease. But testing showed that the diagnosis of the dermatologist, of all people, was correct

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Who’s going to marry him? I asked myself. Who but I, the friend of the downtrodden, the patron of the needy.

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The first interview question was, “What would you do if you’d walk into a jail cell and find an inmate hanging from the ceiling?”

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