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Yosef Zoimen
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Seven Spheres
Clear out your ego and make room for His Kingship
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
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To be personable, you need to develop your personality
Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz
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We designed the perfect engagement ring — then he had a new proposal
Beth Perkel
Real Life
My baby was so close and yet still out of reach. All I could do was say Tehillim and beg Hashem to intercede
Racheli Goldner
step-by-step
How does one learn courage and dedication from people who eat treif and can’t read a pasuk of Chumash? The synagogue where I grew up taught me the answer M y father’s kehillah expressed devotion by driving to Shabbos services — but their loyalty sustained a shul that stood for all the right things After my
Raquel Goldish
Be My Guest
"Raising Torah-true children was just becoming the new frontier, so 'Vezakeini' expressed the prayer on every parent’s lips"
Riki Goldstein
Be My Guest
If you could invite one music personality into your succah this year, who would it be?
Riki Goldstein
In the Shadow of Corona
“The birth was smooth, the babies are healthy. My mother wasn’t here, but she got me a neis”
Rivka Streicher
In the Shadow of Corona
Being brave can make a person break. Being real gives us the strength to carry on
Chassia Thau
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Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, never gave up. Week after week he called every single person in the kehillah, exhorting them to come Shabbat morning. Soon his efforts began to pay off, and we had a regular minyan.

By Debbie Bensaid (née Bentolila)

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In 1948, for parnassah reasons, my parents moved to Spring Valley, Illinois, a hamlet about 100 miles southwest of Chicago in the center of coal country

By Rabbi Shneur Aisenstark

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By Rabbi Ilan Feldman