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Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 28  
Esther Kurtz
Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 27
Esther Kurtz
Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 26
Esther Kurtz
Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 25 
Esther Kurtz
Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 24 
Esther Kurtz
Pinpoint
The Story That Wasn’t
Stick a pin in the phonebook. See where it lands. Make the call. Does everyone have a story? Five writers find out
Musia Slavin
Pinpoint
Parallels and Perspective
Stick a pin in the phonebook. See where it lands. Make the call. Does everyone have a story? Five writers find out
Esther Kurtz
Balancing Act
Self, Sacrificed: Reader Roundtable
The making of a martyr
Family First Contributors
Balancing Act
The Ball I Dropped 
14 women give us a look at the balls they’re keeping in the air — and the ones they’re letting go of for now
Family First Contributors
DMCs
Learning to Fly
“Loser, you’re a loser,” my classmates taunt, pointing at my cleft lip while I shrink into hopeless oblivion
Devorah Grant
DMCs
Losing Game
I would find myself crying not for Kaila and her family, but for the simplicity of my own life before this all happened
Ariella Schiller
A Storied People
Changing Lives for Eternity     
Remembering Rav Shlomo Zalman Singer, the founding rosh yeshivah of Passaic Torah Institute (PTI)
Rabbi Nachman Seltzer
A Storied People
The Cigarette Miracle  
Hashem has many ways of helping His people — and we have no way of knowing how much He treasures every effort
Rabbi Nachman Seltzer
As They Grow
"Is This Normal Preteen-Teen Behavior?"
“Every little thing setting a little girl off” could be describing an emotionally dysregulated child
Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald
As They Grow
Earner or Learner?
Rabbi Greenwald's column in Issue 1011, advising a mother with a daughter in shidduchim to clarify whether she wants a husband who learns or one who works, generated significant reader feedback. Two letters are presented here, along with Rabbi Greenwald's response.
Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald
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Yup, she was definitely my daughter. There was a lull. I stayed quiet for as long as I could handle the silence

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Outside Chance: Chapter 22 

“You can do better, Chana. Yehudis, who made your community, deserves better. So does the shul”

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Outside Chance: Chapter 21 

I’d thought switching yeshivos was just a suggestion — now it was a threat

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“I know, but it’s so scary. The odds are slim, but they’re still there, my numbers were off, weren’t they?”

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How funny and sad is it that I’m giving parenting advice and support to Shifra when I’m kinda muddling through it myself right now?

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Outside Chance: Chapter 18

“Who said I want to go back to the dorm?” Chaim interjected. What? That wasn’t in the script

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