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Miriam Klein Adelman
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Hanna Green
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 Rivky Gartenhaus
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Be My Guest
"Raising Torah-true children was just becoming the new frontier, so 'Vezakeini' expressed the prayer on every parent’s lips"
Riki Goldstein
Be My Guest
If you could invite one music personality into your succah this year, who would it be?
Riki Goldstein
Map the Starlight
Why do maps fascinate me? Partly because I love fault lines. The border between doubt and certainty. The place between choice, faith, passivity, and acceptance
Leah Gebber
Map the Starlight
Who is he? A man who seeks goodness and truth, or a man who burns books and people? Is he heir to his great-grandfather’s legacy?
Leah Gebber
tastes like shabbos
Just the word itself brings waves of nostalgia for the beautiful Shabbosos of my childhood
Family Table Readers
tastes like shabbos
A teacher and a mother, Rebbetzin Machlis cooked for several hundred guests every Shabbos for decades
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz
Linked Supplement
Knowing where we come from gives us purpose and passion as we find our way forward
Mishpacha Contributors
Linked Supplement
If you could ask a single special ancestor of yours to address one question that you face, who would you ask and which life experience would you tap?
Mishpacha Contributors
FamilyTable Feature
Yesterday, a day after Simchas Torah, a day after war broke out, I returned to Megillas Eichah Five in the morning, and I can’t sleep. I sit and stare through my bedroom window, at my quiet Beit Shemesh street below, knowing that just a few minutes’ drive away, another family undoubtedly lies awake, too. The
Danielle Renov
FamilyTable Feature
I served this soup to my guests last Succos, and it was a huge hit! It does require some advance prep work
Naomi Nachman
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Was my need to protect my sanity greater than my desire to understand my student?

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