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Still Alive
Jacob L. Freedman MD
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No Quitting
Jacob L. Freedman MD
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What Am I Missing?
Jacob L. Freedman MD
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Machul, Machul, Machul
Jacob L. Freedman MD
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Checkmate
Jacob L. Freedman MD
Split
Split: Chapter 10
People expected me to have a holy perspective about our children’s conditions from the beginning
Musia Slavin
Split
Split: Chapter 8
At nine days old — an incredibly young age for a child with both a cleft lip and a cleft palate! — they weaned Tali off the feeding tube
Musia Slavin
Bricks and Ladders
Bricks and Ladders: Chapter 60
"We decided that if any of you aren’t happy in Stonesworth, we’ll try to make it work so that you can go to school in Brownsfeld"
Ariella Schiller
Bricks and Ladders
Bricks and Ladders: Chapter 56
Back to school tomorrow. When I left I’d been part of the most popular clique in school and now I’m returning alone, a nobody, ashamed and mortified
Ariella Schiller
Out of Step
Out of Step: Afterword 
The resilience she’s built up from overcoming her pain will help her go so far
Ariella Schiller
Out of Step
Out of Step: Chapter 56   
"I kind of had a crash course this year in growing up. You won’t know this, Deeny-beany, but I used to dance"
Ariella Schiller
Knesset Channel
The Moment of Truth
With the draft bill on its way, the moment of truth is here
Avi Blum, ESQ
Knesset Channel
Waiting Game 
Why is Bibi's coalition dodging the draft law?
Avi Blum, ESQ
Send Them Off as Jews
Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 8
“You know,” I tell them, “what’s important now is just being here.”
Rabbi Daniel Rose
Send Them Off as Jews
Send Them Off as Jews: Chapter 7
Facing the end of life — or even seeing that possibility in the distant future — can be a gift, for all sorts of reasons
Rabbi Daniel Rose
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