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Esty Heller
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Unboxed
There’s a direct line between what went on since the November elections, and the political violence that shook Washington, D.C. on January 6
Gedalia Guttentag
Unboxed
At the very moment when mankind is advanced enough to grapple with Artificial Intelligence, gene editing and quantum computing, we’re totally defenseless against a virus - except for a cloth over our face
Gedalia Guttentag
Ideas in 3 Dimensions
Rav Yitzchak Hutner is still speaking to you
Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
Ideas in 3 Dimensions
No one ever really finds Rav Tzaddok — Rav Tzaddok finds you
Dovid Bashevkin
Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
I was the stereotypical newlywed, setting up my best friend with my husband’s kid brother
Esty Heller
Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Ninth-grade bochurim would huddle in a corner, daring each other to make the plunge and ask Mordy a question
Shmuel Botnick
At the Core
Our faith may be dimmed but it can always reignite
Baila Vorhand
At the Core
What distinguishes our chochmah from the wisdom of the Greeks?
Baila Vorhand
Personal Accounts
I feel the warmth of Mamma’s embrace. I finally experience the gift of motherhood "You were never at Kever Rochel?” people ask me incredulously when I share that I’m taking my first-ever trip to the kever, well over a decade after moving to Eretz Yisrael. I don’t know why I never went. And now, as
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Personal Accounts
This year, this niggun was an anthem because we showed it. He’s always there for us, but this year, we were there for Him too.
Yisroel Besser
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And so, Day Off became Day On. “Getting things done” was now my self-imposed goal

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At the grocery, she’ll very possibly meet her friend, whom she’ll compliment on her new wig. Oh, wig! Her sheitel appointment!

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“If not for my visits, they wouldn’t know about shul and Shabbos. They would know nothing”

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I’m trying. Very hard. But there’s a thick gray fog that makes me unsure of where I stand

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“If I don’t make it,” he whispered to her, “name the baby after me”

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We know so little when we dream of perfect years and happy children

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