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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Guests of Honor
Is it true that love is blind? Doesn’t it hurt her anew every time she thinks of how her son rejected the world she chose?
Rachel Newton
Guests of Honor
Do we ever fully appreciate the immigrant experience of so many who have come before us?
Sarah Moses Spero
Ask the Expert
A tug of war between Olam-Haba-with-a-touch-of-Olam-Hazeh, versus Olam-Hazeh-with-a-touch-of-Olam-Haba We encounter them everywhere, these low-hanging fruit. So defenseless and pathetic are they, that to gobble them up and consume them is to take unfair advantage of the weak and the vulnerable. How else to describe the plethora of notices inviting us to spend Succos in various
Leah Reisman
Theme Section: Open Secrets
So many of us carry secrets — some heavy, some light. Some that mean nothing, and some that change everything. Six writers tell stories of secrets kept, shared, and revealed
Family First Contributors
My Corona Time Capsule
Endless days blurred into months of upheaval. We strove to forge forward. Twenty-one readers reveal the single object that defined the tenor of these times
Family First Contributors
Every Song Has Its Story
Do we ever think much about, or even know, what motivated our favorite song?
Riki Goldstein
Every Song Has Its Story
“In place of a sefer Torah,” he told the group, “let us carry this child, who represents the future of the Jewish people”
Riki Goldstein
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On that day we will be challenged: VERIFY THAT YOU ARE A JEW.

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Clothes and head coverings define us, and clothes and head coverings divide us

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