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Think beyond your fridge. Many doors, dishwashers, or other household items have a large magnetic surface
Chanie Nayman
Game On!
This month, we’re rallying around all things wood, namely, popsicle sticks, to bring the trees indoors
Chanie Nayman
Plate art
With so much fish being served over Yom Tov, here’s a pretty yet simple plating idea.
Esther Ottensoser
Plate art
Here are a few special touches that will enhance your Yom Tov table
Esther Ottensoser
DIY
No jumping through hoops necessary to make these gorgeous succah decorations
Esti Vago
DIY
We’d always been a “Navi family,” as I liked to call it, focused on learning independently   When my sister was in ninth grade, she got into trouble during Navi class. The teacher felt like the questions she raised bordered on chutzpah, and she called my father, a rav, to discuss the issue. My father listened,
Nechama Kovitz
In the Numbers
We’d always been a “Navi family,” as I liked to call it, focused on learning independently   When my sister was in ninth grade, she got into trouble during Navi class. The teacher felt like the questions she raised bordered on chutzpah, and she called my father, a rav, to discuss the issue. My father listened,
Boaz Bachrach
In the Numbers
“He said you will definitely have two children, maybe even three.”
Rabbi Akiva Fox
True Account
My life as a musician...was fundamentally at odds with the Torah observance I was discovering
Ariel Moyal
True Account
A dusty sefer in a Boca genizah connected me to ancestors in a way I’d never imagined
Rebbetzin Yocheved Goldberg
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