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Just Don’t Ask
Lea Pavel
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I Am Buba   
Hanna Green
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Accident or Design? 
Today they’re household names, but it started with a leap of faith: “I saw my chance and the Hashgachah. I reached out and asked if I could design the entire building
Susan Strauss
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Down to a Fine Art   
Today they’re household names, but it started with a leap of faith: “I wanted to be an artist, but not a starving one. Could I pursue my creative dreams, while fulfilling my responsibilities to my family?"
Rabbi Yonah Weinrib
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License to Kill: A Few Minutes with Itamar Ben-Gvir   
“Now that President Trump is urging us to act differently, inaction is a historic mistake”
Avi Blum, ESQ
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Trump’s Mideast Deals
Whether Qatar will play a role in any negotiations between Washington and Tehran remains to be seen
Rafael Hoffman
Voices for Eternity
Esther HaMalka: Robed in Royalty
Esther was prepared to sacrifice everything—her very life and even her portion in Olam HaBa—for the sake of the people
Rebbetzin Shira Smiles
Voices for Eternity
Chuldah Haneviah: Heartbeats of Hope
The tefillos of men are carried upward through the prayers and tears of the women
Rebbetzin Shira Smiles
Send Them Off as Jews
Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 8
“You know,” I tell them, “what’s important now is just being here.”
Rabbi Daniel Rose
Send Them Off as Jews
Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 7
Facing the end of life — or even seeing that possibility in the distant future — can be a gift, for all sorts of reasons
Rabbi Daniel Rose
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
The Story of People
The more we know about people, the more we know about the past. The more we know about the past, the better we are able to assess the present.
Rabbi Berel Wein
Pendulum: Succos Supplement 5784
Anatomy of a Scandal
“This shameful bill passed controversially in the Knesset, is responsible for many premature deaths in dangerously ill people who avoided medical treatment out of fear of the draconian regulations allowing their body to be dissected after death.”
Rabbi Eliyahu Gut
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