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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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A Heart Transplant
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
All in a Day's Work
All in a Day's Work  
If you could work anywhere for a day, what would you choose? 6 Writers. 6 Jobs.  6 Adventures
Family First Contributors
No Food Left Behind
Fatoosh Quinoa Salad
If you want to experiment with an intense flavor shakeup and impress both your guests and your palate, this recipe is for you!
Beth Warren
No Food Left Behind
Plant-Based BBQ Sides
Let’s not discount the sides to balance your macros out!
Beth Warren
Learning Curve
Learning Curve: Chapter 13
Aviva doesn’t show up to work for a few days, causing Suri to worry. Chavi tells Aviva’s mother that she’s been sick all week
Gila Arnold
Learning Curve
Learning Curve: Chapter 57
Hoping the peal hadn’t woken her children, she ran to the door. Standing on her doorstep were the last two people Yael would have expected to see
Gila Arnold
Uncomplicated
Supper in Seconds
How can an observant and learned Jew, who dons tefillin every day and maintains Shabbos and kashrus, behave this way?   The disturbing scandals of the last months have engendered various questions: Should one read — even maintain in his home — books written by someone who has evidently been guilty of perpetrating many serious crimes against
Faigy Grossmann
My Lightning Flash
FF Theme: My Lightning Flash
Six women share a moment that illuminated their path
Mishpacha Contributors
My Lightning Flash
Never Say Goodbye
As we stood at Har Sinai, we saw the thunder, heard the lightning. The lightning fades, but the sudden burst of clarity takes you forward. Six women share a moment that illuminated their path
Shoshana Schwartz
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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

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Counting the Days

Calendars can help us count the days, but only we can make the days count

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman