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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
Family Farce: Purim 5783
If you’re a guy and you have a wife, you already know most of what I’m going to tell you
Esty Heller
Family Farce: Purim 5783
Not everything my mother writes about Yitzi means that I actually did it
Yitzi Peritzman
Out of the Woods
"I just feel like someone’s staring at us,” he said, lowering his voice. “Strange, no?"
Rochel Samet
Out of the Woods
“We’ll be making a seudas hodaah together,” Avi said. His friends and Elchanan’s friends...somehow, it was all the same thing now
Rochel Samet
Ask the Expert
We have not been abandoned. He is listening for our tap at His door   I was on the way to a shalom zachar, celebrating the arrival of a new Jew into the world, when I heard that an hour earlier, two young Israeli children and a 20 year-old just-married had been brutally run down
Leah Reisman
Calligraphy: Succos 5785
“She really has to come live here. She should be near us. What else does she need at this point besides us and our children, her nachas?”
Rivka Streicher
Calligraphy: Succos 5785
“I was in Reb Azarya’s office. You know the picture of the baby on his desk? The picture of… of….” He took a deep breath. “Yisroel?”
Shmuel Botnick
Outlook
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has abused her powers to stymie the government at every turn
Yonoson Rosenblum
Outlook
“The extent to which Israel is ruled by unelected officials is difficult to convey to outsiders. It sounds too fantastic”
Yonoson Rosenblum
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Perhaps we all need a reminder, in the midst of haggling and dealing, that we are living not in an ordinary land

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The human soul requires regular contact with the Creator, just as human lungs require air

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“You’re not a thief,” I said, “but you definitely have a faulty memory” 

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All of life, not only sports, is a matter of inches

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So much for shibboleths like “democracy” and “voice of the people”

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It is precisely our fealty to mitzvos outside our natural comfort zone that defines us as Jews

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