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Tehila Myerson
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Rachelli Saffir
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Rivka Streicher
The Great Escape
Mishpacha contributors share accounts of those special summers disconnected from the grind
Ahava Ehrenpreis
The Great Escape
Mishpacha contributors share accounts of those special summers disconnected from the grind
Esther Adler
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
Great Reads
Mummy was a fighter, but this was a battle she couldn’t win
Ester Zirkind
Great Reads
Sometimes I feel like I’m ten again, a child they expect to behave in predictable ways
Bashie Lisker
Double Take
Wasn't it obvious that your huge kiddush would upstage our seudah? 
Rochel Samet
Double Take
When Torah learning turns into a tug-of-war — whose seder comes first?
Rochel Samet
TripleSay
Is conformity a Torah value?
Faigy Peritzman
TripleSay
“Marriage is about moving from the ‘me’ to the ‘we.’ We don’t sacrifice for each other. We sacrifice for both of us”
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“May you always be this happy!” they kept on wishing me, and I thought, Oh no, please not!

By Nechama Engel

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Pangs of reality punctured my celebrating soul. Aha, so my chassan was pining for a thousand-dollar useless watch.

By Malky Blum

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This was a viper, slowly slithering, evil, horror, mouth suddenly gaping, fangs exposed. The mouth of hell. The human mind found it hard to grasp,

By Rayzel Reich

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Sara thought that Yaakov had become akin to the Shabbos lights in their dramatic shadow: zachor, yizkor, a quiet act of remembering, a lingering glow,

By Miriam Dansky

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I would never be able to fashion my husband into the man I had hoped to marry, a man focused on serving Hashem and being a family man. But I could be his friend. And maybe, he would be mine

By Leah Gebber

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My husband got a brachah from the rav that if we bought a stroller, the baby would follow. But everything from shopping for the stroller to storing it brought me pain,

By Yehudis Frank