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Tougher Ground or New Ground?
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One Fish, Two Fish
Gedalia Guttentag and Rabbi Avraham Edelstein discuss the state of kiruv today   I   n 2014, as a fresh graduate of the Ner LeElef training institute, I hesitantly stood up to address my first kiruv Shabbos dinner in Tel Aviv. My experiences over the following years with young Jews from all over the world
Elisheva Frankel
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Gedalia Guttentag and Rabbi Avraham Edelstein discuss the state of kiruv today   I   n 2014, as a fresh graduate of the Ner LeElef training institute, I hesitantly stood up to address my first kiruv Shabbos dinner in Tel Aviv. My experiences over the following years with young Jews from all over the world
Elisheva Frankel
A Summer Well Spent
The Higher Part of You
"To see how 'I' and 'me' are just ways to say ‘us' and 'we'; to expand yourself to include others"
Yosef Herz
A Summer Well Spent
The Real Teachers
"It was all part of being there, showing the unaffiliated that bnei Torah can be fun, normal, and serious about Yiddishkeit at the same time"
Yosef Herz
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Two Exes and a "Why?"  
Why must the children bear the brunt of the conflict between their parents?
Dr Meir Wikler
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Encouraging Signs
Is the siman of the rimon indeed only a repetition or reaffirmation? Or is there perhaps a deeper meaning to this siman?
Rabbi Dovid Gernetz
A Promise Kept
Mission Accomplished
My companions  — along with the bag I was counting on to keep us alive — vanished in the chaos
Yael Schuster
A Promise Kept
Cookies and Caring
We’d created a haven for them to unburden their hearts, and sent them away with the sweetness of home cooking
Millie Samson
Standing Ovation
A Matter of Record 
These records, it turns out, were the standards in the early 1900s
Dovid Nachman Golding
Standing Ovation
Sing Your Praises 
How many songs can you sing from Hallel, and what do you know about the backstories?
Dovid Nachman Golding
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