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Normal Like Me
Ruti Kepler
Normal Like Me
Ruti Kepler
Normal Like Me
Ruti Kepler
Normal Like Me
Ruti Kepler
Normal Like Me
Ruti Kepler
Know This
I wasn’t ready to have this baby, but I would have to rise to the occasion
Shoshana Gross
Know This
I spent my childhood and young adulthood scrimping and saving. But then, everything changed
Shoshana Gross
Family Activities
Come one, come all, play one, play all! You can prepare these carnival booths for a Chanukah party, or do one activity each night at home with your family
Esti Vago
Family Activities
Bubbles + tie-dye equals a whole new level of fun and flair
Esti Vago
Halachah
Your playgroup and babysitting halachic dilemmas, solved
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
Halachah
The spark that starts the week
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
Akeida Moments
Sometimes I’d believe I could slip into it, if I could just find the portal to enter. A place that would accept me, quirks and all.
Esther Kurtz
Akeida Moments
“I accept Your Will Hashem,” I whispered, “I accept this nisayon, please just give me the koach.”
Avigayil Wein
Dream On
Vivianne Willig, MSW, responds to reader questions about Dream On
Vivianne Willig MSW
Dream On
Whatever she ended up doing in life, she’d do it as herself. If nothing else, she’d learned that this year in seminary
Gila Arnold
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How long do we all have to keep being extra considerate because you’re the family nebach — while you have this magic dispensation to be bitter and grouchy?,Normal Like Me: Chapter 10,How long do we all have to keep being extra considerate because you’re the family nebach — while you have this magic dispensation to be bitter and grouchy?

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On the one hand, she hadn’t wanted him. On the other hand, she’d already begun getting used to the idea that he would be her husband,Normal Like Me: Chapter 8,On the one hand, she hadn’t wanted him. On the other hand, she’d already begun getting used to the idea that he would be her husband

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“Would you suggest to a baalas teshuvah that she come to a family wedding in a sleeveless dress so her parents won’t be embarrassed?” I almost yelled,Normal Like Me: Chapter 7,“Would you suggest to a baalas teshuvah that she come to a family wedding in a sleeveless dress so her parents won’t be embarrassed?” I almost yelled

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“I don’t want to be ‘back to normal’! ” Tzadok insisted. “I have a mission. I was given a gift! I won’t destroy it with a drug”,Normal Like Me: Chapter 6,“I don’t want to be ‘back to normal’! ” Tzadok insisted. “I have a mission. I was given a gift! I won’t destroy it with a drug”

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White people, she’d heard, almost never painted their faces. That was so stupid. Wasn’t it bad enough that they were so pale and colorless, like skeletons?,Normal Like Me: Chapter 5,White people, she’d heard, almost never painted their faces. That was so stupid. Wasn’t it bad enough that they were so pale and colorless, like skeletons?

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He — the child always a bit behind, a bit slow; the reject, the anxiety-ridden young man who was never good enough — he was a prophet now

By Ruti Kepler