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I’m still tied to a tradition stemming all the way back to the First Temple
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Elderly Danish Jews relive the night they were rowed to safety 
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Can This Business Be Saved?
"Employees perform at the lowest standard you set. When you raise the bar, most will rise to the challenge"
Isaac Bardos
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with business coach and strategist Isaac Bardos
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Of giving, taking, and building campaigns
Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
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There were no more atheists left in the house. No more questions needed to be asked
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Mummy was a fighter, but this was a battle she couldn’t win
Ester Zirkind
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Sometimes I feel like I’m ten again, a child they expect to behave in predictable ways
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9 writers hear messages from days gone by reverberating in their own lives

By Esther Teichtal

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  T he November sun is strong, but there’s a chill in the air I hadn’t expected. Autumn has crept up from behind in its mixed-up glory, blustery clawing tendrils and floaty leaves sashaying down to earth. I berate myself for not bringing sweaters as I lock the car, strap the baby in the stroller,

By Rachael Lavon

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I s a child being raised in Flatbush, I was surrounded by girls whose fathers learned in places like the Mir, Chaim Berlin, Torah Vodaath. Me? I was the daughter of a baal teshuvah from some hick town called Saratoga Springs — a place no one knew about. Blank stares were de riguer, and I

By Elana Rothberg

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L iving in Eretz Yisrael means not just living in a land filled with kedushah, but in a land saturated with our people’s past. Here in Ramat Beit Shemesh, we Anglo olim are just the newest population strata in an area known for its incredibly rich history, going back to the times of the Tanach —

By Gila Arnold

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  G rowing up in Baltimore, we had Washington, D.C., in our backyard. We spent Chol Hamoed trips there, school trips there, and any-other-opportunity trips there. The result was that, despite its glamorous status as the nation’s capital, Washington became a big bore. Been there, done that. But my attitude changed when I entered the

By Faigy Peritzman

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O ld meets new in York, perhaps more than in any other city in England. Bus routes weave around ancient city walls, the quaint marketplace thrives just a short distance from a designer outlet mall, and supermarkets jostle for space along a riverbank marked with bridges, stone buildings, signposts to history. In the middle of

By Rochel Samet