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Whether we promote ourselves on Instagram or not, we all already have a unique brand of our own — because Hashem made us that way.
Alex Abel
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When I get to that place, I remember that Hashem has a plan tailor-made for me
Alex Abel
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“I... how often are you thinking of hosting events like these? I mean, they’re wonderful, and they do bring in business, it’s just... whatever”
Faigy Schonfeld
On the House
She had so many ideas, so much passion — and she was going to funnel it all into a random project that meant nothing to anybody
Faigy Schonfeld
Standing Ovation
How Jewish music was made accessible back in the days of old
Dovid Nachman Golding
Recipes
There’s always a gap between our dreams and reality, and that chasm looms large in motherhood I t had been a long day, the sort you have when the kids are little and the days long and their needs incessant, but we’d made it, finally, to bedtime. We’d read the last bedtime story and said
Hana Itzhaki
A Face and A Place
Rebbe Gedalya Moshe was buried in one of the tiny graveyards in a corner of the city. Who knew of it’s power?
Hodayah Cohen
The Lens
Their departure from the dining room took well over an hour
Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz
The Lens
While he has passed on to the Next World, the photo captures his otherworldly chein for posterity
Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz
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