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Whispers
Shira Hart
Learning Curve
Gila Arnold
Summer Job
Dov Haller
Free Fall
Miriam Stark Zakon
Whispers
Shira Hart
Stranger in a Strange Land
“What about your second Pesach Seder? I usually have American bochurim. Come to me”
Shoshana Gross
Stranger in a Strange Land
“I can’t imagine what it would have been like to raise our children in any other city”
Russy Tendler
Your Children Shall Return
These parents prayed from the depths of their hearts, that pure, never-sullied place where the Jewish spark is never extinguished
Yisrael Goldwasser
Your Children Shall Return
Was he missing? Dead? Wounded and unconscious? Or had he been taken hostage? Chaos reigned supreme, inflicting indescribable agony
Yisrael Goldwasser
Balancing Act
The making of a martyr
Family First Contributors
Balancing Act
14 women give us a look at the balls they’re keeping in the air — and the ones they’re letting go of for now
Family First Contributors
Make Her Day: Chanukah 5782
Enjoy a glimpse at the joy they sparked
Ariella Schiller and Miriam Milstein
Sunshine Season: Summer 2025
Everything I needed to know I learned on summer break
Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz
Sunshine Season: Summer 2025
Making the effort to meet people where they are doesn’t mean you aren’t being true to yourself 
Sandy Eller
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Learning Curve

Suri begins treating a friend’s son, and suspects that the boy has autism. Aviva resents her husband’s overconcern for how hard she’s been working,

By Gila Arnold

Learning Curve

Aviva’s husband starts working at the clinic, and embarrasses her by broadcasting their relationship to all the parents. Yael’s confidence as a clinician is ebbing, but her husband is so proud of her work, she doesn’t feel she can share her anxiety with him

By Gila Arnold

Free Fall

Abe and his friend travel to Chicago, on their way to Moe’s graduation from basic training. Annie wonders if she’ll ever see Abe again

By Miriam Stark Zakon

Whispers

As a teen, I was actually allowed to see the x-ray and hear the doctor’s diagnosis: the whitish-gray shadow was my spine, twisted into an S-shape,

By Shira Hart

Free Fall

Annie receives a letter from Moe, who’s forlorn because no one from his family will be at the ceremony marking the end of basic training

By Miriam Stark Zakon

Whispers

This time her question wasn’t about my hands or feet, or my height or weight. It was global: “Why are you so weird?”

By Shira Hart