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Azamra Cohen
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Estee Rabinovicz
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Adina Soclof
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Yael Zoldan
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Shani Klein
All in a Day's Work
If you could work anywhere for a day, what would you choose? 6 Writers. 6 Jobs.  6 Adventures
Family First Contributors
Linked Supplement
Knowing where we come from gives us purpose and passion as we find our way forward
Mishpacha Contributors
Linked Supplement
If you could ask a single special ancestor of yours to address one question that you face, who would you ask and which life experience would you tap?
Mishpacha Contributors
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I’m continuously astonished by how much less of a big deal this switch has been than I thought it would be
Aliza Feder
Win or Lose
How wrong had he been. Mr. Greenbaum was anything but a silly old man. He was actually one of the most brilliant and wealthy people around
Chaim Finkelstein
Win or Lose
Yitzy was shocked. Why on earth would Mr. Greenbaum ask him such a silly question? Was this a joke?
Chaim Finkelstein
News In Depth
As the American chapter of the book on Jonathan Pollard is coming to a close, a new, more hopeful sequel is about to be written
Binyamin Rose
News In Depth
Ari Zivotofsky’s 18-year battle finally ends with “Israel” listed on his son’s passport
Ari Z. Zivotofsky and Naomi Zivotofsky
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I am a home day-care provider. I love the kids I spend my day with. It’s some of their mothers that I don’t like. Lots of people annoyed me when I was younger and less experienced — the mother who brought her baby with a dirty diaper every single day, and the ones who dropped off

By Esther Rabi

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Don’t stop laughing because of me.

By Chavi Fuchs

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As I walked across the large stone slabs of the teacher’s entrance, I couldn’t help feeling that I was leaving half my life behind

By Chany. G. Rosengarten

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Emes is not about a crashing orchestra, a vision of high drama. Jewish life is the tiny silver chime of truth.

By Leah Gebber

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“Who will laugh with me when I mention Kalman’s name? Who will chuckle at the memory of the broken vase that I hid under my pillow?”

By Esther Schiff

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Forty years is almost half a century and it’s difficult to remember what brought us together then

By Miriam Klein Adelman