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"I don’t want to waste my time trying to copy Abba, I’d rather develop according to my own abilities"
Riki Goldstein
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"I inherited some of the passion and I am outspoken, but regretfully, not the same degree of tact"
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As selected hostages emerge from Gaza, joy mingles with dread
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The Crown Heights riots, 30 years on
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His brother reacted as if he’d seen a ghost: “The blanket!” AT 24 years old, it was all she owned. Coarse and bristly, yet warmer than anything she’d managed to scavenge over the past year, the blanket represented the impossible: She had survived. But just barely. In the course of 12 months, she’d gone from
Bashie Lisker
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Mendy stalks toward me, hand outstretched. I shriek until Mommy comes onto the porch to see what’s going on
Ariella Schiller
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Had we been waiting all these months for an appointment with the wrong doctor?
Family First Contributors
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The shomer Shabbos is able to look at the life they have been blessed with and say, “It’s a beautiful world!”
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Close to a century later, we're still singing the songs of a visionary scholar, builder, and leader.
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When your work puts you inside some of the most sensitive situations in our community, how can you keep from burning out?
Yisroel Besser
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