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Still Alive
Jacob L. Freedman MD
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No Quitting
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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
Shared Space
Shared Space: The Follow-Up
As the serial draws to a close, we reached out to voices of authority within the community to discuss some of the underlying threads of Shared Space. This week, Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger weighs in on the issue of hard moneylending
Dov Haller
Shared Space
Shared Space: The Follow-up
Sometimes, the greatest gift parents can give their married children is the freedom to fail
Dr Meir Wikler
Special Supplement: Rav Chaim Kanievsky — A Sefer Torah on Loan
He Knew Everything
It is impossible to feel the impact of Rav Chaim’s brilliance unless one experiences it firsthand 
Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger
Special Supplement: Rav Chaim Kanievsky — A Sefer Torah on Loan
The House on Rechov Rashbam
What made the house such a magnet wasn’t just the almost tangible Torah in its air. It was the open hearts of Rav Chaim and Rebbetzin Batsheva
Ezriel Yudkowsky
A Promise Kept
Mission Accomplished
My companions  — along with the bag I was counting on to keep us alive — vanished in the chaos
Yael Schuster
A Promise Kept
Cookies and Caring
We’d created a haven for them to unburden their hearts, and sent them away with the sweetness of home cooking
Millie Samson
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
Quick Q
"Do You Leave Your Dishes in the Sink Overnight?"
“Hopefully you’ll make a better doctor than a chess player" he told me   Jonas was a young man who was stuck at the state psychiatric hospital, and I was his medical student. Jonas was an only child who had grown up in a comfortable suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts, where mom and dad lavished chess
Quick Q
"As a Woman, Do You Have a Rav, Rebbetzin, or Mentor?"
What happened to a trusted sibling or friend?
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