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Faigy Schonfeld
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Esty Heller
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Rivka Waldman
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Esther Malka Goldschmidt
A Storied People
True tales from the corners of our world
Rabbi Nachman Seltzer
A Storied People
True tales from the corners of our world
Rabbi Nachman Seltzer
Dear Readers
I'm already imagining the letters we'll get in response to this week's cover story
Bassi Gruen
Food that Packs
I t wasn’t my dream job but I was young and optimistic and I still believed that anything could happen. (The fact that I’d taken this entry-level dead-end job was perhaps the greatest proof.) Maybe anything could happen but day bled into day as I sat bored stiff in my swivel chair and all that
Rivky Kleiman
Food that Packs
I t wasn’t my dream job but I was young and optimistic and I still believed that anything could happen. (The fact that I’d taken this entry-level dead-end job was perhaps the greatest proof.) Maybe anything could happen but day bled into day as I sat bored stiff in my swivel chair and all that
Rivky Kleiman
Family Room Feature
Mood boards to inspire your bathroom updates, from small to large, black to white — and all the colors in between
Family Room Contributors
Family Room Feature
Foundational concepts when considering a bathroom refresh
Yali Katz
Close Call
If you’re ashamed to tell people about the friendship, that’s an important sign that shows you don’t feel proud of it
Mrs. Chani Juravel
Close Call
The more time passed, the more clarity I gained about what the problem had been with this friendship in the first place. And in one word, the answer was, “extreme”
Devoiry Braunstein
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When Bubby’s cat, dog, and bird tricks wore off, she would eagerly teach me pithy Yiddish proverbs about the value of true beauty and wisdom

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Zeide dipped his hands into the cut-glass bowl. Cupping his palms, he raised them high, heaped with silver, coins flowing, flowing, flowing. Tinkling, clinking, singing,

By Esther Teichtal

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My natural state is usually sedentary, but flick on an Avraham Fried tune, and I morph from couch potato to spinning top

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