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With Tears and Joy

Tzippy Wagner

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Pantry Panic

Rikki Schultz

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A Mother’s Heart

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The Golden Stretch

Gila Roth

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Fighting for My Daughter’s Sake

Keren Elstone

The Gadol Down the Block: Shavuos 5782

Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky — The House at the Bottom of the Hill

Rav Yaakov’s house was the lodestar of our family’s spiritual identity

Mrs. Suri Cohen

The Gadol Down the Block: Shavuos 5782

Rav Shlomo Zalman Friedman — Holy Fire

And then, one Friday night before Succos, the Rav’s home was destroyed in a devastating fire

Moshe Benoliel

Family Farce: Purim 5783

To Be Honest — The (Much) Better Half

If you’re a guy and you have a wife, you already know most of what I’m going to tell you

Esty Heller

Family Farce: Purim 5783

Parshah — True Confessions of a Peritzman Kid

Not everything my mother writes about Yitzi means that I actually did it

Yitzi Peritzman

Nightmare Come True

When Home Becomes the Front

A day of rejoicing and unity, when families celebrate their shared heritage, became a day of horrific loss and unfathomable mourning

Mishpacha Contributors

Nightmare Come True

Fight to the Finish

Will we succeed in landing a decisive blow against our enemies, and what would an ultimate victory in Gaza look like? Three former National Security Council advisors, and former UN Ambassador Danny Danon, share their views

Binyamin Rose

Jr. Fiction

Tale of Treeo: Chapter 3

I’m taking the tools I used to heal years ago and using them to become a better version of me AS I look at my sleeping baby’s face, fear slithers into my heart. Before this beautiful girl came into the world, we were a boy family. Exclusively. Sure, they were a handful, my five

Bashie Lisker

Jr. Fiction

Of Kittens and Counting

Mendy stalks toward me, hand outstretched. I shriek until Mommy comes onto the porch to see what’s going on

Ariella Schiller

News Feature

Bittersweet Return

As selected hostages emerge from Gaza, joy mingles with dread

Avi Blum, ESQ and Binyamin Rose and Chananel Shapiro and Yaakov Lipszyc

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Dark Days in August

The Crown Heights riots, 30 years on

Yochonon Donn

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Just One More

A promise that connects me to everything I’m trying to leave behind

By Shoshana Gross

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Letter from Sem

The newsletter is yet another reminder that I am on the outside looking in, that I don’t belong. But do I want to rejoin?

By Miriam Maggid

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My Namesake and I

Try as I might, I still harbor that childish conviction that Rus and I are one and the same, that the megillah is referencing me in its depiction of dedication and complete subservience to the ultimate King

By Russy Tendler