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Millie Samson
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Batya Burd
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Abby Delouya B.A, B.Ed, MFT
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Barbara Bensoussan
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Faigy Peritzman
Family Activities
Come one, come all, play one, play all! You can prepare these carnival booths for a Chanukah party, or do one activity each night at home with your family
Esti Vago
Family Activities
Bubbles + tie-dye equals a whole new level of fun and flair
Esti Vago
Friendship Fix
I don’t want her to feel like she can’t lean on me because I don’t lean on her
Shoshana Itzkowitz
Friendship Fix
The best way to end the conversation without making an issue or insulting anyone is to subtly change the topic
Shoshana Itzkowitz
SisterSchmooze
Time travel isn’t possible. Or is it? What about mental time travel?
Marcia Stark Meth / Emmy Leah Stark Zitter / Miriam Stark Zakon
SisterSchmooze
We move out of our comfort zone, bemoan no-parking zones, and drive in a family no-fly zone
Marcia Stark Meth / Emmy Leah Stark Zitter / Miriam Stark Zakon
Dreamscapes
Could I create a library to serve as my son’s living legacy?
Elisheva Appel
Dreamscapes
Although the world of psychology has made huge strides, I was concerned that we, as kallah teachers, hadn’t yet caught up
Elisheva Appel
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
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In my room, I let myself be. There was no right, or wrong, no socially acceptable PC answers. There was no judgment, no awkwardness, just me.

By Esther Kurtz

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The closets in my home had the power to move through the walls! My house was surely the coolest on the block,

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Two tiny words to bridge chasms, repair rifts, mend hearts. Five women, and the ways they said,

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It’s a good thing it was my mother who introduced me to Harry Potter because she had no one but herself to blame for my obsession

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Five women — a skipper, a mathematics professor, a biomedical researcher, a house painter, and a mortgage broker — on being frum and female in male-dominated professions

By Esther Teichtal and Shalvi Waldman and Shira Yehudit Djalilmand

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The tears of Tishah B’Av contain every pain. They can also contain the seeds of our redemption,

By Faigy Schonfeld and Rebecca Feldbaum and Tehila Sothner