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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
The Soapbox
Mothers of Jackson, Unite 
What advocacy couldn’t accomplish, parents achieved just by showing up
Rabbi Avi Schnall
The Soapbox
We Need to Tell Boro Park's Story     
It’s now time for our community to work proactively to shape our public image
Avi Greenstein
Fruits of Kindness
Fruits of Kindness 
A bus ticket, a care package, a haircut — the items were small, the caring behind them enormous. A small seed sprouted and grew tall. Twenty readers share acts of giving
Family First Readers
To the Letter
Back to the Start
As we know in so many areas in Judaism, the end is really just the beginning of something new, something greater
Mindel Kassorla and Cindy Landesman
For Keeps: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5783
Standing Guard
I can see the shul from my dining room window. The idea that it was so close, yet so far, was too much to bear
Binyomin Yudin 
For Keeps: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5783
No Greater Treasure     
“He would be killed just for having it in his possession. But a Torah is a Torah and my father was determined to save it”
Sandy Eller
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
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Outside Chance: Chapter 23  

Yup, she was definitely my daughter. There was a lull. I stayed quiet for as long as I could handle the silence

By Esther Kurtz

Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 22 

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

By Esther Kurtz

Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 21 

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

By Esther Kurtz

Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 20

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

By Esther Kurtz

Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 19 

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?

By Esther Kurtz

Outside Chance
Outside Chance: Chapter 18

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

By Esther Kurtz