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Raizy Tabakman
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Rikki Ehrlich
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Faigy Schonfeld
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Miriam Eliwatt
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Rifka Junger
Send Them Off as Jews
“You know,” I tell them, “what’s important now is just being here.”
Rabbi Daniel Rose
Send Them Off as Jews
Facing the end of life — or even seeing that possibility in the distant future — can be a gift, for all sorts of reasons
Rabbi Daniel Rose
Fundamentals
On Pesach, Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim. During Sefiras Ha’omer, we take Mitzrayim out of us
Miriam Kosman
Fundamentals
Why Elul needs a hard heart — and a soft one
Miriam Kosman
Impressions
Elderly Danish Jews relive the night they were rowed to safety 
Riki Goldstein
Impressions
Me? I thought, hesitant. Who am I to write a book about the Tannaim and Amoraim?
Rabbi Nosson Wiggins
School Daze
There are a lot of other ways to be successful than being academic. You are so much more than the grades you get!
Perel Stone
School Daze
Who would guess that the girl who was making every teacher miserable had such talent!
Perel Stone
Guests of Honor
Is it true that love is blind? Doesn’t it hurt her anew every time she thinks of how her son rejected the world she chose?
Rachel Newton
Guests of Honor
Do we ever fully appreciate the immigrant experience of so many who have come before us?
Sarah Moses Spero
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She is in the park, sitting on a bench and feeding the pigeons that encircle her. She’s totally immersed in the task at hand and does not notice me.

By Hagit Hoffman

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I often wonder what it was like for her, a strikingly beautiful, confident, and previously spoiled teenager completely alone in the world, navigating through hell.

By Naomi Levenspil

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I’m torn between wanting him to stay my little boy forever and being excited about all the amazing things he’ll do.

By Esther Ilana Rabi

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My entire kitchen is instant smoke and blackness. I’m standing in the eye of an explosion. Am I alive? Burned? Maimed? Cut? Bleeding? ,Lifetakes: Waiting for My Miracle,My entire kitchen is instant smoke and blackness. I’m standing in the eye of an explosion. Am I alive? Burned? Maimed? Cut? Bleeding?

By Rachel Ginsberg

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Realization dawned: This was not a secret addition to our own house; it was simply a sneak peek into our neighbor’s home.

By Rochel (Grunewald) Samet

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I don’t live here, I’ve got to go home. Will I ever recapture the connection I feel here, on this little porch?

By Rivka Streicher