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On Being Alone
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Three Wise Monkeys
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Becoming my Brother’s Keeper
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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An Elul Confession
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Tenth of Av
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Dinner Hour
Dinner hour with Rochie Laufer
When it’s time to eat, the youngest ones eat first, followed by the older children, who drift to the table as the smells draw them in
Rochie Laufer
Dinner Hour
Versatile and Delicious Béchamel Pasta 
A meal both adults and kids alike will enjoy!
Rochie Laufer
Family Room Feature
To each their own
Mood boards to inspire your bathroom updates, from small to large, black to white — and all the colors in between
Family Room Contributors
Family Room Feature
Renovation Realness
Foundational concepts when considering a bathroom refresh
Yali Katz
Deal or No Deal
Boys Night Out… without the Sons-in-Law?
You realize that your husband and the other sons-in-law were not invited
Deal or No Deal
Picking Up Socks?
Besides him needing to learn basic derech eretz for me, what will his wife say?
Reel Chronicles
Yeshiva Nishmas Hatorah (Inwood, New York)
Outtakes from a video production studio
Moshe Shindler
Reel Chronicles
Client: Shela-He
Shela-He is a Lakewood based organization that gives women the chance to partner with yungeleit by donating a dollar a day
Moshe Shindler
Inbox
Inbox: Issue 1056
“Stretching the rules, or even worse, ignoring them or simply lying, in the name of frumkeit seems to have become the norm”
Mishpacha Readers
Open Mic
Foil Pans and the Secret of Simchah
The Torah itself explicitly reveals to us the secret to achieving simchas Yom Tov
Shmuel Botnick
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Bumper Sticker Musing

Transcendental bumper sticker wake-up call?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Just Thinking

How does one become a thinker or a theologian? Is there an examination before one can practice thinking? Does one get a certificate or a license? And if someone without a license is caught thinking, does he get fined for thinking without a license?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The “Ten Most” Answers

Our last column (Issue 444) listed ten challenging questions. Today we suggest some answers. To refresh memories the original questions are summarized and printed at the beginning of each answer below.   1) What root word is found repeatedly at the beginning of Bereishis?  Other than tov (good) which is of course common throughout the

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman