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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
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Who Really Lost the Election?
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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David and Jonathan
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Embrace New Beginnings: Letters for Elul Zeman
Embrace New Beginnings: Letters for Elul Zeman
Letters of advice and uplift for the new Elul zeman
Mishpacha Contributors
Dispatch
Ten Drops of Wine    
Was I violating the meaning of the injunction to dip my finger in the second cup of wine ten times at the Seder?
Rabbi Hillel Goldberg
Dispatch
As If There Were Closure 
The Nazis tried to hide their crimes. Hamas terrorists glory in their crimes
Rabbi Hillel Goldberg
Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Hidden Assets
I was the stereotypical newlywed, setting up my best friend with my husband’s kid brother
Esty Heller
Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Birthright
Ninth-grade bochurim would huddle in a corner, daring each other to make the plunge and ask Mordy a question
Shmuel Botnick
Front Row Seat
Notes from the Front Row Seat
“A groisse shkoyach. mamush, a groise mitzvah hot ir gehat”
C.S. Teitelbaum
Front Row Seat
Make Room for Another    
Whenever Rabbi Whittow had to buy a new car, the Rosh Yeshivah told him to weigh only two considerations
C.S. Teitelbaum
The Explainer
Will Putin Give Peace a Chance?
Do the Riyadh talks hold promise for a way out of the quagmire? Or is Vladimir Putin stringing everyone along?
Rafael Hoffman
The Explainer
The JFK Files 
Will newly declassified docs shed light on JFK's assassination?
Yitzchok Landa
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Words Not Heard

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

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Empty Stadiums and Empty Shuls

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

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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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

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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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

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Virtuosos of the Virtual

In this pandemic we continue to long for reality and an escape from make-believe, and we pray that we can continue to distinguish the real from the illusory

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Good Mourning and Bad Mourning

Even if you are not a sports fan, keep reading, because this might speak to you

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman