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A Warm Corner in Flatbush
Yosef Zoimen
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A Shul in the Congo
Debbie Bensaid (née Bentolila)
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Little Shul on the Prairie
Rabbi Shneur Aisenstark
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Driven to Make the Minyan
Rabbi Ilan Feldman
Staying the Course
Staying the Course: Chapter 6
Against the odds, I had done it. Not only done it, but done it well
Yossi Myers
Staying the Course
Staying the Course: Chapter 5
As foreign as some of the classes were, ultimately, the questions raised in every course brought me back to where I came from
Yossi Myers
F is for Friendship
Why Work Hard?
“But, but….” I sounded like the sputtering last cup of soda in a slush machine. “That doesn’t make any sense,” I finally said
Ruchama Schnaidman
F is for Friendship
F is for Friendship
Tzivi wasn’t the writer, I thought. I glanced around the classroom. That left twenty-two other girls. Well, twenty-one because it wasn’t Penina
Ruchama Schnaidman
En Route
Traffic Jams
The universal motivators of sin all center on the self
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
Tales of Treeo
Up North: Chapter 9
“A little extra work that’s terrorizing the welcome house!” Eli says hotly. Squizzle shrieks in agreement. “What’s Mr. Teichman going to say when he finds out?”
Bashie Lisker
Tales of Treeo
Up North: Chapter 8
The glass has disappeared so cleanly, it looks like it was never there
Bashie Lisker
Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Hidden Assets
I was the stereotypical newlywed, setting up my best friend with my husband’s kid brother
Esty Heller
Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Birthright
Ninth-grade bochurim would huddle in a corner, daring each other to make the plunge and ask Mordy a question
Shmuel Botnick
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