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The Day of the Brightest Light

The holier a specific time is, the more desperately the opposing forces will seek to attack it

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The Chasam Sofer on Lag B’omer

As Lag B’omer approaches, we ready ourselves for its celebration. But what, precisely, are we celebrating?

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With wisdom, humor, and a passion to help his contemporaries, he’s embarked on a mission to help other zaidies make the most of the time they have in the best years of their lives

Chaia Frishman

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Shifra Mehl of Eim Leah

I remember that feeling of drowning after I had my second baby in Israel, 14 months after my first. I didn’t want anyone else to experience that helpless feeling

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Musings

Use your foot! You crawl on all fours to the bathroom, in tears. Use your foot?

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The Takeout Fiasco

“Mmm. . .” he said, picking up his glass of water and taking a long swallow. “That’s really good”

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F is for Friendship

“But, but….” I sounded like the sputtering last cup of soda in a slush machine. “That doesn’t make any sense,” I finally said

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Tzivi wasn’t the writer, I thought. I glanced around the classroom. That left twenty-two other girls. Well, twenty-one because it wasn’t Penina

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So much more binds us than separates

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