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Rivka Zahava
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Leah Subar
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KJ Hannah Greenberg
5 Myths
What do you know about Swiss banks?
Sharon Gelbach
What a Year Can Do
As a new year dawns, what did we learn — and how have we changed?
Dean Robert Goldschmidt
What a Year Can Do
As a new year dawns, what did we learn — and how have we changed?
Adrian Garbacz
Sirens at Ne'ilah
A half century after the guns fell silent over Sinai and the Golan, revisiting the climactic scenes on the front and those inside the heart
Binyamin Rose
Sirens at Ne'ilah
As sirens wailed, soldiers mobilized, and an entire nation was gripped by fear, how did the Torah world’s leaders respond?
Meir Gold and Yair Stern
FF POV
Protektzia is baked into our society. Should it be?
Family First Readers
FF POV
Kids are overwhelmed, parents are overworked. Just whose job is this homework, anyway?
Family First Readers
Rocking Horse
I suppose this story is my plea to the world: Don’t let this happen. To anyone. Anywhere. Anytime
Leah Gebber
Rocking Horse
Just as Hashem Rolled away the light before the darkness, tomorrow He will Roll away the darkness before the light. My mother once said, “Small children step on your feet, big ones step on your heart.” I had no idea then what she was talking about. Now, decades of sunsets later, my own babies have
Leah Gebber
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Since when did dry shoes become a higher priority than the sweet bliss of childhood?

By Rivka Zahava

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The glass slippers of sheva brachos have long been replaced by sensible clogs My baby sister just got engaged, over a decade after I did. By now, I’ve long since relinquished my young-couple status. The way I see it, you’re no longer newlyweds once your kids outnumber you. I wouldn’t want to go back to

By Faigy Gerstein

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I said to myself, oh, no — I can’t write a book

By Leah Subar

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Just as Hashem Rolled away the light before the darkness, tomorrow He will Roll away the darkness before the light.

By KJ Hannah Greenberg