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The Nachas Call
Rebecca (Feldbaum) Steier
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All For the Boys
Esther Kurtz
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Packaging Before Product
Aidel Loeb
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Dreaming of Rest
Yehudit Garmaise
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Pain Is Pain
Lea Pavel
A Heaping Scoop
A Heaping Scoop: Fresh Flowers
Do you have any tricks to keeping flowers fresh throughout Yom Tov?
Family Table Contributors
A Heaping Scoop
A Heaping Scoop: Quick-but-Special Dinner
What’s a quick-but-special dinner you make when you want to go all out, like on Rosh Chodesh?
Family Table Readers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Finally, Home
“What about your second Pesach Seder? I usually have American bochurim. Come to me”
Shoshana Gross
Stranger in a Strange Land
Shift Down South 
“I can’t imagine what it would have been like to raise our children in any other city”
Russy Tendler
Connections
Standing Up to My Husband
My husband is very harsh with my kids. Is it my role to put a stop to it?
Sarah Chana Radcliffe
Connections
Small Crowd, Big Mortification
I’m scared the tiny number of guests I have at my simchah will reflect badly on me
Sarah Chana Radcliffe
The Rainbow Girl
The Rainbow Girl: Chapter 12
Rachelli flushed. She wanted to answer back, defend herself or say something, but then she realized it was true
Rochel (Grunewald) Samet
The Rainbow Girl
The Rainbow Girl: Chapter 11
Maybe that’s the thing with family, they’re so close that it’s hard to see things clearly
Rochel (Grunewald) Samet
EndNote
Grow, Young Man!
Is there a niggun that pushed you to develop in ways you’d never imagined?
Riki Goldstein
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Threading the Needle
An unmet want will wither and disappear, while an unmet need will destroy you from the inside
Shoshana Friedman
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The Baby Borrower

I need to know I still have the Mommy Touch, even if I’m no longer a Mommy of babies; I’m more of a “Ma!” now

By Ella Saltzman

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Picture Child

She doesn’t notice the click of the shutter as I snap her picture

By Miriam Klein Adelman

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Still Here

You get up the next morning and you head into your day, and you act like a normal person with normal problems

By Miriam Maggid

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No Atheists in Sloan-Kettering

Retrieving the letter that falls out of the envelope, I gasp as I recognize my father’s unmistakable, beautiful script

By Diane Epstein

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Dr. Google

Cold dread mingled with an absurd sense of validation at having my fears confirmed

By Raizy Appeldorfer

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So Many Questions

I’m not exactly sure, and they can sense that. They sniff out uncertainty like bloodhounds

By Yael Zoldan