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Zehava Kaner
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Faigy Schonfeld
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Rivka Streicher
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Rochel (Grunewald) Samet
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Faigy Schonfeld
Text Messages
Thank you, for both your honest feedback and your friendship-from-afar
Eytan Kobre
Text Messages
It's the day when as a community, time and again we fail mightily in our designated role on this earth
Eytan Kobre
Election Special
If Bibi is serving as a minister, his political life is over. But if he’s the prime minister, he can fight the charges while in office
Eliezer Shulman
Election Special
Bibi is like the coach whose team is trailing with less than two minutes to go and has used his last timeout
Binyamin Rose
Story Supplement
It’s a great Haggadah, I realize. Just not the best one for me
Rochel Samet
Story Supplement
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
Chaya Rosen
Slices of Life
He was just a man with calloused hands, shaping falafel balls, and making a parnassah
Shloimy Hoffman
Slices of Life
How did she get such remarkable blueberries, each one perfect?
Yaakov Rosenblatt
Tales of Treeo
“A little extra work that’s terrorizing the welcome house!” Eli says hotly. Squizzle shrieks in agreement. “What’s Mr. Teichman going to say when he finds out?”
Bashie Lisker
Tales of Treeo
The glass has disappeared so cleanly, it looks like it was never there
Bashie Lisker
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We chat of summer plans, jobs, dreams, and hopes. And who we are. I find myself defending something I never thought so much about

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What this woman didn’t know, and couldn’t possibly have known, was just how loaded her simple question was

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The frustrating thing is that I had achieved that intense kavanah, but now I have to struggle for it — more often than not, failing miserably. It doesn’t help that the Satan does some of his best work while I attempt to daven

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“Why is this year different from all the other years of my life? All the other years you were with us, Tatty, but this year, you’re no longer here”

By P. Diamond