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The Embarrassed Zionist
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Weeping Without Cause
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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A Top-Sacred Fable
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Only Thing
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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A Glutton-Free Wedding?
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
A Face and A Place
In a Forgotten Graveyard
Rebbe Gedalya Moshe was buried in one of the tiny graveyards in a corner of the city. Who knew of it’s power?
Hodayah Cohen
Whispers
Whispers: Chapter 2
Instead, I was consumed by fear of the unknown. I received no explanation for the many doctors’ visits, nothing to combat my wild imagination that created stories each night to prevent me falling asleep
Shira Hart
Whispers
Whispers: Chapter 17
I grabbed the folder and handed it to Rachel. “I’ve been doing some writing. Here’s some of my stuff. If you’re interested…”
Shira Hart
Yosef Chaim
What a Great Mistake
Is it somehow anti-halachic to have a wedding that is elegant and tasteful and avoids excesses?   The Presbyterian minister of the nearby church in Atlanta was a true ohev Yisrael, even delivering pro-Israel sermons and denouncing anti-Semitism from his pulpit. Despite the great divide in our beliefs, we were quite friendly over the years.
Shira Yehudit Djalilmand
Yosef Chaim
Yosef Chaim and the Time Machine
"What period in Jewish history would you like to go back in time to — and what would you do differently if you were there?!”
Shira Yehudit Djalilmand
Hanging in the Balance: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5784
Hanging in the Balance
Sometimes it feels as though your entire future hinges on an upcoming verdict that will change everything. 4 stories of women left hanging in the balance
Family First Readers
Free Fall
Jumping Into Freefall: An Author Looks Back
Freefall took me 12 months — and 25 years — to write. Now that it’s over, while other old and new responsibilities bang at my door, I’ll ignore the knocking for a bit and share a short retrospective on life during Freefall
Miriam Stark Zakon
Free Fall
Freefall: Chapter 55
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
Miriam Stark Zakon
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They sense that they have lost the battle for the Israeli soul; they know that the electorate — not only the Orthodox — has said No to their desire to shed our uniqueness

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