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Leah Gebber
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Leah Gebber
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Leah Gebber
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Leah Gebber
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Leah Gebber
Flashback
They were nothings. Nothings. Nothings. Just trodden-in-the-mud Jews. Just girls, dependent on fathers and brothers for their safety All her body aches. Yesterday, it was the hair. Today, she kneeled on the floor and scrubbed, inch by inch, until gray and brown disappeared and the tiles shone. Diamenta had looked around and clapped her hands.
Bassi Gruen
Flashback
They were nothings. Nothings. Nothings. Just trodden-in-the-mud Jews. Just girls, dependent on fathers and brothers for their safety All her body aches. Yesterday, it was the hair. Today, she kneeled on the floor and scrubbed, inch by inch, until gray and brown disappeared and the tiles shone. Diamenta had looked around and clapped her hands.
Faigy Peritzman
Shared Space
As the serial draws to a close, we reached out to voices of authority within the community to discuss some of the underlying threads of Shared Space. This week, Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger weighs in on the issue of hard moneylending
Dov Haller
Shared Space
Sometimes, the greatest gift parents can give their married children is the freedom to fail
Dr Meir Wikler
FYI
Even though it’s not a medical condition, it’s not easy to be a teenager with hair getting thinner and thinner
Shoshana Itzkowitz
FYI
An eating disorder is a mental illness where a person refuses to eat or eats as minimally as they can
Shoshana Itzkowitz
Outside Chance
Chaim picked up his laffa, then put it down. He seemed to be thinking. “I don’t remember ever making a conscious choice in my life”
Esther Kurtz
Outside Chance
My breath caught in my throat. Every time I let myself picture that awful moment, I felt first-trimester nausea
Esther Kurtz
As They Grow
When you send your daughter to seminary, you might want to look into the ideals and values that those people espouse
Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald
As They Grow
Let your daughter know she has a choice in life: To live with what she has, or to be forever wishing that she were someone else
Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald
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