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The Other Side of the Counter
One Husband’s Tips on How to Really Help Your Wife in the Kitchen
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Light Years Away
It seems that many readers missed the essence of the story
Ruti Kepler
Light Years Away
Her son looks at her directly. He’d gone to speak with his father, not with her. He’d intentionally come while she was out
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The Bigger Picture
The medics had returned to Meron and were sitting in a circle around 45 candles, processing their loss, their limits
Charlie Harary
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Let’s do what Yidden do, even now, even after, and after, and after again
Yisroel Besser
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"Dobra Baila could definitely splash paint around on a bit of paper. But do you really think anyone’s gonna pay money for the daubings of a kid?"
R. Atkins
B.A.N.G Gang
"I know you: You’re the lads who saved my Tiddles. There’s no way you’re thieves"
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Podcast: The Builders
Part 1: The Quiet Lion of Vilna Part 2: Building the Chareidi World
Podcast: The Builders
Bringing up that long-ago walk in the snow she asked if I remembered that day and the fun and the cold and the hot chocolate. Again I said no and again she was very disappointed that I didn’t share the memory. T he conversation went something like this: Me: “Hello?” “Hello Miriam?” “Yes. Who is
Gedalia Guttentag and Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Galinsky
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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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“So, Ma,” my 17-year-old asked again that year. “Are you going to shul for the whole davening?”

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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!

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