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Virtuosos of the Virtual
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Good Mourning and Bad Mourning
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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A Surprising Antidepressant
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Good Taste
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Wings of the Butterfly
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Yardsticks
Yardsticks: Chapter 43
“Oh, goodness, I’m so happy. It’s amazing what a good fit does to a gown. Beautiful, beautiful”
Esty Heller
Yardsticks
Yardsticks: Chapter 42
It was not my place to tell Yocheved what to do. This was her business, her responsibility. I couldn’t change the world
Esty Heller
Yosef Chaim's Adventures
A Hot Idea
Then I had one of my ideas. All my ideas are good, but this was especially good. It was an idea that would solve my two problems in one shot
Shira Yehudit Djalilmand
Calligraphy: Pesach 5785
Home Again 
The walk to the entrance is long, long, long, one aisle that’s five times the size of the entire prison commissary
Rochel Samet
Calligraphy: Pesach 5785
Enough
Meir repressed a groan. Why didn’t girls know that guys didn’t take mussar seder seriously?
Esther Kurtz
LifeLines
Hold Me Tight
If you ever read any book about love languages, my mother’s picture should be on the opening of the chapter on gift giving
Mattie Weinberg
LifeLines
The True Giver
Fighting for our baby’s every breath, we gained just as much as we gave
C. Saphir
News In Depth
Final Chapter, New Beginnings
As the American chapter of the book on Jonathan Pollard is coming to a close, a new, more hopeful sequel is about to be written
Binyamin Rose
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Birthright Restored
Ari Zivotofsky’s 18-year battle finally ends with “Israel” listed on his son’s passport
Ari Z. Zivotofsky and Naomi Zivotofsky
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A Little Three-Letter Word

We are all united in our loneliness and in our faith that before long all this will be behind us

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Ultimately, such Jews will turn against the Jews themselves

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Two Jews: A Purim Fantasy

A Sanders-Bloomberg ticket! Dov-Ber and Michoel! Two nice Jewish boys with New York accents

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Naturally, a Miracle

Perhaps here we have a new meaning for the word shehecheyanu

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman