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When our view of a relationship is that it will remain forever, we figure out a way to get it right
Rabbi Aryeh Kerzner
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Photo: Shutterstock T he plan was that when my sister-in-law Mindy went to the hospital to have her baby I’d go over to her house to hold down the fort. This would be her fifth; there was a lot to hold down. So when the phone rang as soon as Shabbos was over I knew
Rabbi Levi Lebovits
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Thank you, for both your honest feedback and your friendship-from-afar
Eytan Kobre
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It's the day when as a community, time and again we fail mightily in our designated role on this earth
Eytan Kobre
Musings
Back to Muskan. She felt awful, just awful, that I had received a dented Tjena
Peshie Needleman
Musings
I’m left in a color wheel of confusion. What could I have done differently? 
Beth Firestone
Vantage Point
Given what happened last year and since — can our observance of this day remain unchanged?
Rabbi Moshe Hauer
Vantage Point
Allow me to quote a few lines from last year’s article that was never printed
Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg
To the Letter
As we know in so many areas in Judaism, the end is really just the beginning of something new, something greater
Mindel Kassorla and Cindy Landesman
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