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A Tale of Two Passports
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Family Last: a Groundbreaking Purim Saga
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Minchah in the Seventh Inning
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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A Sign of the Times
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Two Slips of Paper, Six Little Words
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Standing Ovation
Check-in Time   
Going back just a few decades, almost all the kosher hotels were located in the Catskill Mountains
Dovid Nachman Golding
Standing Ovation
So the Story Goes    
Veteran producer Dovid Nachman Golding hosts a walk down musical memory lane
Dovid Nachman Golding
Family Farce: Purim 5782
Family Farce Inbox
"Picky eaters? That concept was invented circa 2010; it simply did not exist when we were raising children"
Chana Fishman and Michali Naiman
Family Farce: Purim 5782
Family Farce: This Way, That Way
How many other foods have achieved the widespread popularity that ketchup has enjoyed for decades?
Yaakov Taub
On Site
Survival on a Promise
What happened to the Aleppo's historic Jewish sites, including the Great Synagogue of Aleppo?
Yitzchok Landa
On Site
When Words Fail  
Artists from around the world give their own expression to the horrors of October 7
Barbara Bensoussan
Simply Organized
Why Owning Less Is Really More
After latkes and doughnuts, why not indulge in the gift of breathing space?
Miriam Yafit
Simply Organized
Organizing "Things"  
Let’s transform your personal space into zen and peaceful rather than cloudy and stressful
Miriam Yafit
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
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Return to Sender

I stood there frozen in place, frustrated and indignant. What pathetic mindset would choose this venue as a postal branch?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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What’s in a Name?

Most people seem to be calling it quite simply “the October 7 War”

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Letter to an American Jewish College Student

There is one truly powerful response that is often overlooked: to become more Jewish

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Rejoice in Trembling

This classic debate has only intensified today with the Hamas captive deal

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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A Different Commission of Inquiry

Cheshbon hanefesh — literally, “an accounting of the soul.” We might also translate it as a “Commission of Self-Inquiry”

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Once Again

Never Again these days has a very hollow ring to it. Never Again has become Once Again

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman