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A Bank and a Brachah
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Oblivious to the Obvious
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Rav and the Gaon
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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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
Concentric Circle
Concentrate
Already by Birchos haShachar I’ve remembered eight urgent things to do
Esther Sender
Concentric Circle
Siamese Souls
Separation is extremely complicated and highly dangerous in most cases — often one or both twins doesn’t make it.
Mesorah Quest
Savannah Seder
How did a clandestine Jewish community in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro stay under the radar for so many decades?
Ari Greenspan
Mesorah Quest
One Tribe Lost and Found   
High on isolated Indian cliffs, the Bnei Menashe are almost living Jewish
Ari Greenspan
Every Soul a World
Rav Chaim Yechezkel Shraga Dahan Z”L
Just as Moshe Rabeinu’s birthday and Yahrzeit are on the same day, so, too, Rabbi Dahan was decreed to be taken from us on his birthday. One year since his passing
Penina Steinbruch
Every Soul a World
Mr. Yakov Henigson
“Yakov, in his short life in This World, succeeded in becoming a walking kiddush Hashem”
Ariella Schiller
Sefiras Ha'Omer
Fundamentals
A Tale of Two Voices
On Pesach, Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim. During Sefiras Ha’omer, we take Mitzrayim out of us
Miriam Kosman
Fundamentals
Why We All Need a Hard (and a Soft) Heart
Why Elul needs a hard heart — and a soft one
Miriam Kosman
Inbox
Inbox: Issue 1063
“It would mean a lot to singles if we could find other topics to hash about in the magazines”
Mishpacha Readers
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Inbox: Issue 1062
“Coming as I do from the chassidishe oilem, I wonder why the yeshivish crowd can’t take anything from our playbook”
Mishpacha Readers
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Minchah in the Seventh Inning

My position was that folks would have to make their own choices: either the minyan or the game

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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A Sign of the Times

I do not believe that this poster represents the views of most nonobservant Israelis

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Two Slips of Paper, Six Little Words

There is, however, one casualty of this war that is very welcome, and that is the aura of invincibility and power that enveloped Israel and its armed forces for decades

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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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