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Yosef Wartelsky
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Why Is This Okay?      
Nachi Gordon
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Pain is Only Part of the Picture
Gedalia Guttentag
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Making the Ends Meet the Means
Shmuel Winiarz
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Don’t Let Politics Pull Us Apart  
Avraham Daniels
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Picture This   
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t catch my toddler on the slide while simultaneously snapping a picture
Shira Lederman
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Giver of Infinity
Everything she had was in a shopping bag — and now it was lost
Esther Malky Neiman
A Stone’s Throw
A Stone’s Throw: Chapter 8
“Something happened today and I need your advice. Would I be able to come over to your house and show you something?”
Faigy Gold
A Stone’s Throw
A Stone’s Throw: Chapter 7
As I passed, I nodded hello and even ventured a “Chodesh tov.” He looked at me, and suddenly held up his hand. The whole line stopped
Faigy Gold
My Corona Time Capsule
My Corona Time Capsule
Endless days blurred into months of upheaval. We strove to forge forward. Twenty-one readers reveal the single object that defined the tenor of these times
Family First Contributors
The Explainer
Will 2022 Be Better? Or Will It Be 2020 2.0?  
2022 in 5 conflicts
Omri Nahmias
The Explainer
The Great Supply Chain Mess   
Supply chains are broken and we'll all feel the pain
Gedalia Guttentag
Front Row Seat
Notes from the Front Row Seat
“A groisse shkoyach. mamush, a groise mitzvah hot ir gehat”
C.S. Teitelbaum
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Make Room for Another    
Whenever Rabbi Whittow had to buy a new car, the Rosh Yeshivah told him to weigh only two considerations
C.S. Teitelbaum
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