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5783: Year in Review
A repeat of the 2020 election looks to be in store
Maury Litwack
5783: Year in Review
Eight years after his rise, the fact that the Trump era hasn’t run its course is the biggest political story of the year
Gedalia Guttentag
The Last Flask
And then they found it — the last flask, the small bottle that would enable them to start anew. 12 writers share the last flask that lit up their own lives rattle of hope
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Off the Couch
“You maligned us! You broke our confidentiality! You terrible, terrible man!”  
Jacob L. Freedman MD
Off the Couch
I was a bit overwhelmed myself — it’s not every day you see a person so candidly willing to admit his pain or weakness
Jacob L. Freedman MD
Summer Series
 Lazy days on our Hungarian lake
Judy Landman
Summer Series
The enjoyment we experienced there was in inverse proportion to its physical condition
Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger
Jr. Feature Article
Let’s explore billboards — the funny, the sad (literally — it’s crying!), the brightest, noisiest, smelliest — and much, much more!
Rochel Burstyn
Jr. Feature Article
What is your shul like? Is it big? Is it small? Is it a basement with some folding chairs and tables or is it a great, big building with a high ceiling? Today we visit ten of the most amazing shuls in the world.
Rabbi Meir Goldberg
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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