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Always in Season
How holiday businesses stay lucrative year-round
Rochel Burstyn
Always in Season
How holiday businesses stay lucrative year-round
Rochel Burstyn
The Insider
Is housing discrimination a hate crime?
David G. Greenfield
The Insider
Each time we were outraged, each time nothing happened
David G. Greenfield
Moonwalk
I wonder if the path is as lonely as I’ve been imagining, after all
Rochel Samet
Moonwalk
Wait, since when do I joke about these things? What’s happening to me?
Rochel Samet
Whispers
Instead, I was consumed by fear of the unknown. I received no explanation for the many doctors’ visits, nothing to combat my wild imagination that created stories each night to prevent me falling asleep
Shira Hart
Whispers
I grabbed the folder and handed it to Rachel. “I’ve been doing some writing. Here’s some of my stuff. If you’re interested…”
Shira Hart
The Rainbow Girl
Rachelli flushed. She wanted to answer back, defend herself or say something, but then she realized it was true
Rochel (Grunewald) Samet
The Rainbow Girl
Maybe that’s the thing with family, they’re so close that it’s hard to see things clearly
Rochel (Grunewald) Samet
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Listening to Baba’s story, her words penetrated deeper than any mussar speech. Because Baba is so… real. Beneath her petite frame, my grandmother is a very powerful person. Passionate. No weak, hazy, beliefs; when Baba believes something, she lives it in every breath she takes,

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I strive to fill the hours, build a routine, drown out the seconds ticking away. But filling time isn’t living and I want to live

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But before I can start cooking, I remember the daily chapter of Tehillim I’ve promised to recite for the refuah of a young lady

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The most anticipated date on the balabuste’s calendar isn’t the first day of school. It’s actually “Beis Noach” — the Monday after Succos ends,

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“So, Ma,” my 17-year-old asked again that year. “Are you going to shul for the whole davening?”

By Miriam Klein Adelman

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Why can’t I feel a little more… more something? It’s not like I don’t care. It’s Rosh Hashanah, for goodness sake!

By Faigy Schonfeld