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He Loves Me
Ella Mandel
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The Island
Rivka Streicher
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Midlife Non-Crises      
Chaya Berger
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A Tale of Two Shoppers
Esty Heller
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Good Enough 
Myrna Weinberger
5783: Year in Review
Halls of Power: 5783
A repeat of the 2020 election looks to be in store
Maury Litwack
5783: Year in Review
Worldview: 5783
Eight years after his rise, the fact that the Trump era hasn’t run its course is the biggest political story of the year
Gedalia Guttentag
Namesakes
Make Me a Corner
"He made a neder that if he got out alive he would dedicate his life to avodas Hashem”
C.S. Teitelbaum
Namesakes
A Bridge Too Far
“I didn’t care how quickly it happened, I was thinking about the future. I wanted it for posterity so that Ari should be remembered every single minute and every single day.”
C.S. Teitelbaum
The Bigger Picture
Circle of Unity 
The medics had returned to Meron and were sitting in a circle around 45 candles, processing their loss, their limits
Charlie Harary
The Bigger Picture
Strengths We’d Never Known
Let’s do what Yidden do, even now, even after, and after, and after again
Yisroel Besser
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Sweet and Sour
The sentiment was sweet, the bakers well-intentioned. But the reception was decidedly sour
Shoshana Friedman
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A Fuzzy Line
Are we deluding ourselves? Because atop our daily servings of news, we’re getting a not-so-subtle sprinkling of culture
Shoshana Friedman
Works for Me
"I Didn't Think I'd Be Single So Long. I Never Wanted a Career"
I promise — neither you nor Hashem will get confused about your values or goals even if you have a fulfilling job
Shaina Keren
Works for Me
"I've Changed Career So Many Times. How to Present Myself?"
The answer, as always, is a story — literally
Shaina Keren
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Light Dawns

The walls are too steep to climb, the stones too slippery to scale. The only thing that can possibly lift you is Him

By Fay Glick

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Off Track      

I’m now a spectator, painfully watching the race go by. I’m no longer one of you

By Shevy Rosen

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The Thing About Things

This house, with its dearth of closets, was going to be mighty intolerant of Things

By Raizy Appeldorfer

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If I Forget You   

When you remember your home in Jerusalem, you think about how your soul was alive and so, so happy

By Miriam Bloch

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Blindsight    

Slowly, my fear of a diagnosis turned into a burning need for one

By Aliza Radin

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Perfect Shabbos Shoes 

Really, have you ever seen anything as endearing in your life?

By Esty Heller