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Brokenness Leads to Building     
In the spiritual world, brokenness can be an asset; it signifies humility, resilience, and a drive for growth
Rabbi Paysach Krohn
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Squaring the Circle: Do You Eat Machine Matzah? 
There is hardly another topic in halachic literature of the last centuries for which so much ink has been spilled
Rabbi Dovid Gernetz
FYI
Five Things I Wish You Knew about Teens with Thinning Hair
Even though it’s not a medical condition, it’s not easy to be a teenager with hair getting thinner and thinner
Shoshana Itzkowitz
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Five Things I Wish You Knew about Having a Sister with an Eating Disorder    
An eating disorder is a mental illness where a person refuses to eat or eats as minimally as they can
Shoshana Itzkowitz
Down to a Science
What Makes Fireflies Light Up?
It turns out that fireflies are way cooler than I ever imagined
Yael Zoldan
Down to a Science
What Are Freckles?  
To understand freckles, we need to learn a little bit about melanin
Yael Zoldan
Step It Up
Elul Goal: Review 
I gave him one last kiss and walked out, leaving the surgeons to do their work   Akiva’s first surgery was when he was a tiny three months old. The procedure, which is mainly cosmetic, closes the lip and attaches all the split muscles in the area, and does help somewhat with eating and speech.
Mindel Kassorla
Step It Up
Av Goal: One Step at a Time   
When you focus on the now, the future becomes possible
Mindel Kassorla
Free Fall
Jumping Into Freefall: An Author Looks Back
Freefall took me 12 months — and 25 years — to write. Now that it’s over, while other old and new responsibilities bang at my door, I’ll ignore the knocking for a bit and share a short retrospective on life during Freefall
Miriam Stark Zakon
Free Fall
Freefall: Chapter 55
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
Miriam Stark Zakon
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Split: Chapter 4 

But it’s just that — a boo-boo—she reiterated to them. “The doctors are going to fix him, b’ezras Hashem”

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Split: Chapter 3 

Our whole world was waiting to see our child, and this is what they’d be greeted with?

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Split: Chapter 2

All the fears, the worries, the concerns — they had a place, somewhere. But right then, I was going to meet my gorgeous son and love him with all my heart.   T here were mountains of medical gobbledygook. Our parents, the only ones who knew about the cleft lip, helped us sift through it. We

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Split: Chapter 1 

Even without any medical background, my husband and I could tell that something was wrong

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