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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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Here’s for New Norms That Are Normal
Rabbi Leibel Karmel
Parallel Journeys
A Split in the Road
I look at my face in those pictures and see my innocence: How I thought things would stay that way forever, sharing a journey with Etty, sharing our lives.
Faigy Schonfeld
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Lost in the Woods
Good girls don’t ask, I was told
Esty Mandelbaum
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"Why should you have to leave camp to go elsewhere, when camp in and of itself is mei’ein Olam Haba?"     When summer 2021 rolls around, will we have learned anything? With the havoc that COVID-19 has wreaked on the world and on all things we once considered normal, it could be argued that
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“She really has to come live here. She should be near us. What else does she need at this point besides us and our children, her nachas?”
Rivka Streicher
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Surface Deep
“I was in Reb Azarya’s office. You know the picture of the baby on his desk? The picture of… of….” He took a deep breath. “Yisroel?”
Shmuel Botnick
Milestones
The Power of Yizkor
The murmured words of Yizkor echo in the upper worlds
Rebbetzin Shira Smiles
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Life and Death 
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How far should composers go to compromise their artistic vision to respond to popular demands and tastes?

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Why Risk Shidduchim?

Something has to change so that women don’t become so disillusioned that they simply choose to give up

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Mixed Messages

Although it may not be intentional, it seems that our Jewish media are subliminally encouraging a lifestyle that many can’t afford

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A generation without strong and inspired mothers

By Shaina King

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The Kids Are Going to Camp, the Parents Are Going Broke

Mindy has to feel good; it doesn’t matter that I feel bad

By Miriam Klein Adelman