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On simchah burnout, sticky scenarios, and being the fall guy
Sara Eisemann
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“When we start at Chapter 26, we have no idea what happened in the 25 previous chapters”
Sara Eisemann
Your Children Shall Return
These parents prayed from the depths of their hearts, that pure, never-sullied place where the Jewish spark is never extinguished
Yisrael Goldwasser
Your Children Shall Return
Was he missing? Dead? Wounded and unconscious? Or had he been taken hostage? Chaos reigned supreme, inflicting indescribable agony
Yisrael Goldwasser
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Perri silently cheered for her son. For their chinuch. At least they’d gotten it right with one of their kids
Blimi Rabinowitz
Serial
“L’chayim! We did it! I cannot believe our wedding was an entire year ago. Shanah rishonah is nuts, no?”
Ariella Schiller
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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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It’s a great Haggadah, I realize. Just not the best one for me
Rochel Samet
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He was stuck, stuck, stuck with nowhere to go. His plans and ideas were good ones, all of them, but they were just plain useless if he didn’t have money
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And then I wondered, did I just lose all credit for driving?

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“Oh, Dina! How are you?” He sounds like he knows who I am I hold the foil-covered chocolate in my palm and answer the phone. “Hello?” “Hi, this is Sam Jacobowitz. I missed a call from this number earlier.” “Hi, Grandpa! It’s Dina.” I put down the softened chocolate. “Who?” “Yaffa’s daughter, Dina, the one

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What do you mean, you hate trips? Everyone loves trips! That doesn’t make any sense

By Malka Katzman

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   I stay glued to the couch, the couch that’s blessedly free from little people overcrowding me, needing me, whining at me

By Leba Friedman

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Yes, I conclude, it might be that we are the anavim, the ones who don’t believe we are worthy

By Yael Zoldan

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His brother reacted as if he’d seen a ghost: “The blanket!”

By Elana Moskowitz