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Miriam Klein Adelman
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Rivky Singer
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Leah Stein
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Ruchi Green
The Explainer
At the US-Iran nuclear talks
Rafael Hoffman
The Explainer
Do the Riyadh talks hold promise for a way out of the quagmire? Or is Vladimir Putin stringing everyone along?
Rafael Hoffman
In the Shadow of Corona
“The birth was smooth, the babies are healthy. My mother wasn’t here, but she got me a neis”
Rivka Streicher
In the Shadow of Corona
Being brave can make a person break. Being real gives us the strength to carry on
Chassia Thau
Pantry Makes Perfect
Something not too complex, yet flavorful enough to be special
Faigy Grossmann
Pantry Makes Perfect
This fish dish takes just a few minutes to prepare — definitely appreciated when preparing so many Yom Tov dishes
Faigy Grossmann
Teen Feature
Teens' insights on what works, what doesn’t, and how they find and create inspiration in daily life
Bashie Lisker
Teen Feature
We sat down with a few principals from various schools to hear about the ins and outs of their job
Bashie Lisker
Worldview
A secular cosmology has the world revolving around us; Avraham Avinu saw the world as revolving around Hashem
Gedalia Guttentag
Worldview
The Olympic gold. The real McCoy. The Shacharis That Sorts the Men from the Boys
Gedalia Guttentag
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I always worried and wondered what sort of mother I’d be. I’m a little impatient — make that very. Multisyllabic words are my favorite kinds, and I have a low tolerance for mindless stupidity (which is the Webster definition of children, right?)

By Esther Kurtz

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Life in the slow lane was changing me fast

By Adina Soclof

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“Why does your family ruin every simchah by dredging up the past?” he asked. “Why do you insist on making every celebration into a Holocaust memorial?

By Shoshana Stauber

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I inhale, trying to escape the horror in my mind. It’s too dark, and within the prism of reality, there is no relief. It really happened

By Faigy Schonfeld

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When I saw the sign, I thought I had inserted my lenses inside out

By Chaya Singer

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Was my child the only black-and-white thinker in the class who would be devastated when a gold-laden structure failed to descend from Heaven?

By Ilana Shafer