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Who We Really Are
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Jewish “Jewish Problem”
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Pinnacle of Humility: a Purim Treatise
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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A Mikveh in the Bathtub
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Darkening of the White, The Whitening of the Dark
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Light Up the Night  
Artist Yitzchok Moully has upped his message: to make the Jewish flame visible in the public sphere
Sara Trappler-Spielman
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It
But why do I assume that this “it” is a reincarnation of a human being?
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Pesach Prep with the Pros
Pesach Prep With the Pros: Week 2
Why were we given this gift of the lovely snow, so briefly here, so quickly gone?   Unlike rainstorms that come crashing down accompanied by thunder and lightning, the snow falls stealthily, like a whisper in the night. When you go to sleep, there is nothing remarkable about the streets outside, the usual black asphalt
C.B. Gavant
Pesach Prep with the Pros
Pesach Prep with the Pros: Week 1
With the busiest season of the Jewish year upon us, how can we balance all of our responsibilities while still nurturing our homes, our children, our husbands, and our spirituality?
Sara Glaz
Guests of Honor
Blind Love 
Is it true that love is blind? Doesn’t it hurt her anew every time she thinks of how her son rejected the world she chose?
Rachel Newton
Guests of Honor
The Royalty Within   
Do we ever fully appreciate the immigrant experience of so many who have come before us?
Sarah Moses Spero
From A to Z
From A to Z: Chapter 16
“You're my teacher?” she asked, incredulous. I took her little hand in mine
Rikki Baum
From A to Z
From A to Z: Chapter 15
“Why,” I demand, “do I have to go to stupid graduation?”
Rikki Baum
Great Reads
The Grandest of Exits 
Mummy was a fighter, but this was a battle she couldn’t win
Ester Zirkind
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Driven Off Course  
Sometimes I feel like I’m ten again, a child they expect to behave in predictable ways
Bashie Lisker
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A Heart Transplant

How can an observant and learned Jew, who dons tefillin every day and maintains Shabbos and kashrus, behave this way?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Bless You!

What, then, is the real meaning of baruch?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The Rise and Fall, the Fall and Rise

One can respect the intelligence of Israeli secularists without agreeing with their anti-religious views

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Going to the Dogs  

Here we have Exhibit A of the ultimate self-absorption, the depths of selfishness

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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How Lapid Made All Of Us Pray

In all the furor, no one mentions that according to classic Jewish law, one becomes a Jew either by having a Jewish mother or by undergoing a proper conversion to Judaism.

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The Shadowy Kiddush Clubs and the Mysterious Half-Torah

The following reply from the distilleries to the Kiddush clubs has been leaked to this magazine

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman