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Hide and Seek
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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A Wondering Jew
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Taste of Forbidden Waters
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Balancing the Balance
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Spy and the Dilemma
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Balancing Act
Self, Sacrificed: Reader Roundtable
The making of a martyr
Family First Contributors
Balancing Act
The Ball I Dropped 
14 women give us a look at the balls they’re keeping in the air — and the ones they’re letting go of for now
Family First Contributors
Why Is This Pesach Different?
Full Carts, Heavy Hearts
“We’re used to huge numbers of deliveries for Pesach; we were prepared for that. We have extra vans. Delivery is not the issue. The issue is getting all those orders together."
Margie Pensak
Why Is This Pesach Different?
Singing to a New Audience
Do you have what it takes to say thank you Hashem when things aren’t going the way you hoped they would?
Yisroel Besser
En Route
Traffic Jams
The universal motivators of sin all center on the self
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
Unlock Your Heart
The Heart in the Sea
Awash in questions, drowning in doubt, we're still cherished
Faigie Zelcer and Leah Gebber
Unlock Your Heart
Rosh Hashanah: The Freedom to Choose
How can we find a pathway into the Yamim Noraim with this mixture of guilt, fear, and paralysis?
Faigie Zelcer and Leah Gebber
A Gift Passed Along
His Brother's Keeper
And that was it. Zeide was forced to simply step over the body and keep marching without pause
Adina Stilerman
A Gift Passed Along
Fringes and Stones
“You, my friend, should be walking around with a camera all day”
Nachman Hellman
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Who Really Lost the Election?

There is great encouragement to be found in the defeat of the pollsters. We are not robots. It is in our power to change our habits and our thinking

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David and Jonathan

They lived in parallel universes, each with its own function: Rav Feinstein deepened the knowledge of Torah, while Rabbi Sacks broadened the knowledge of Torah

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Words Not Heard

The path followed by the Jews is the path to success for any downtrodden group

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Empty Stadiums and Empty Shuls

One can learn from everyone and from everything — even from baseball tycoons

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A Child’s Fable (but Adults May Eavesdrop)

Only one way remained open, and that happened to be the highway that led directly to the palace and the king

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How to View a Circus

All this is unacceptable, and is a perversion of how mankind was meant to live

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman