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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
The Bigger Picture
The medics had returned to Meron and were sitting in a circle around 45 candles, processing their loss, their limits
Charlie Harary
The Bigger Picture
Let’s do what Yidden do, even now, even after, and after, and after again
Yisroel Besser
Ask the Expert
I am writing this a few days before Mrs. Cooperman’s Shabbos, and you are reading this a few days after that Shabbos. I have written elsewhere about it, but if you never heard of the Cooperman Shabbos, read on. Mrs. Cooperman was an elderly widow, a loyal member of my father’s shul in Baltimore during
Leah Reisman
I of the Storm
I pinched myself. Could it be that the entire Shafer crew is cooperating, smiling — and genuinely happy? Could it be that our family portrait is not a complete farce?
Ilana Shafer
I of the Storm
So I’m not a tzadeikes, I shot back to my ever-present faultfinder. I haven’t got bottomless reservoirs of patience. But I’m not so bad, either
Ilana Shafer
Here I Mourn
There are places that epitomize the destruction: Six writers share the location in which  they touch the Churban
Mishpacha Contributors
Fruits of Kindness
A bus ticket, a care package, a haircut — the items were small, the caring behind them enormous. A small seed sprouted and grew tall. Twenty readers share acts of giving
Family First Readers
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All Hebrew letters and numbers — even the very shapes of the individual letters — carry some message

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Some call it “Orthodox,” but it simply means being a committed Jew

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Successful negotiations are always the result of patience, perseverance, and dogged insistence on finding solutions to intractable situations 

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You did not ask for this burden, but in time you will understand that it is primarily a privilege

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Two great challenges, two tests to discover who you are

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The call of the shofar does not come from outside; it emanates from within us

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman