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The Four Sons Say Kinnos    
Yeshaya Kraus LCSW
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Constantly Rejected
Anonymous
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Status Symbol
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
This Way That Way
Raising the Bar
Silky smooth and perfectly sweet, adding white chocolate to baked goods and confections brings dessert to an entirely new level
Family Table Contributors
This Way That Way
Ravenous for Radishes
Peppery and slightly spicy with a punch of a crunch, radishes have become everyone’s favorite addition to salads
Family Table Contributors
Match Quest
Questioning the "Dating Rules"
Rules are a lot like clichés. They came about for a reason. And like clichés, sometimes they apply and sometimes they don’t
Sara Eisemann
Match Quest
"We Have to Skip Our Oldest Daughter… but How?!"
I discovered two significant patterns regarding the women who were “skipped”
Sara Eisemann
Pearls of Wisdom   
The Shadow of Hashem
Parents’ behavior has a profound effect on their children
Family First Contributors
Pearls of Wisdom   
A Matter of Focus
How can the eishes chayil encourage her husband to accomplish in a respectful way that is both realistic and strengthens their shalom bayis?
Family First Contributors
Sunshine Season
Taking Root    
In the beis medrash and on those nature hikes, who would have thought a talmid chacham was being cultivated?
Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber
Split
Split: Chapter 10
People expected me to have a holy perspective about our children’s conditions from the beginning
Musia Slavin
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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
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Making the Ends Meet the Means

At the risk of being simplistic: Income must match expenses for the math to work

By Shmuel Winiarz

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Don’t Let Politics Pull Us Apart  

One’s political leaning has often gone far, far beyond mere political preference, with the assumption that every frum person must share the same politics

By Avraham Daniels

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Here’s for New Norms That Are Normal

“Why should you have to leave camp to go elsewhere, when camp in and of itself is mei’ein Olam Haba?”

By Rabbi Leibel Karmel

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Too Much of a Good Thing?

For children who don’t truly need those services, the effect can actually be crippling

By Esther Taub

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Gartels and Music

How far should composers go to compromise their artistic vision to respond to popular demands and tastes?

By Dovid Nulman

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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

By R.L., Far Rockaway