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Home Is a Succah
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Notes from the Front Row Seat
“A groisse shkoyach. mamush, a groise mitzvah hot ir gehat”
C.S. Teitelbaum
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Make Room for Another    
Whenever Rabbi Whittow had to buy a new car, the Rosh Yeshivah told him to weigh only two considerations
C.S. Teitelbaum
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Chapter 8: In Control 
“I want to help you, Mendy,” I said. “But this isn’t the best place for this conversation”
Bayla Hersher
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Chapter 7: Crisis Management  
Without waiting for me to ask a single question, everything that led up to Chesky’s expulsion came tumbling out
Bayla Hersher
Match Quest
Questioning the "Dating Rules"
Rules are a lot like clichés. They came about for a reason. And like clichés, sometimes they apply and sometimes they don’t
Sara Eisemann
Match Quest
"We Have to Skip Our Oldest Daughter… but How?!"
I discovered two significant patterns regarding the women who were “skipped”
Sara Eisemann
The Gatekeeper's Daughter
The Gatekeeper's Daughter: Chapter 32
Vasara sucks in her breath. She swivels in her office chair and closes her eyes. Her trip to Riga belongs to another era, relegated to a dusty corner of her brain, the door shut firmly after it
Esther Teichtal
The Gatekeeper's Daughter
The Gatekeeper's Daughter: Chapter 31
She might always be that weird girl who has fallen from a distant star who doesn’t know half of the endless rules
Esther Teichtal
Hindsight Is 2020
This Isn’t the SHABBOS TABLE of 2010
To enter the succah is to take shelter under His wings from all the storms, literal and figurative   Every Yom Tov is special, but there’s something different about Succos. It’s one of the three regalim, of course, along with Pesach and Shavuos, and like them, it is a remembrance of Yetzias Mitzrayim. But, as
Chanie Nayman and Michal Frischman
Hindsight Is 2020
This Isn’t the KIRUV of 2010
This dual focus — on Torah growth, and maintaining Jews’ last Jewish connection — is one that kiruv organizations should embrace
Gedalia Guttentag
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Specific, Meaningful, Action-oriented, Realistic, and Time-bound

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A wonderful program of Gemara study called Daf Hashovua 

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Losers Take All

A quintessentially Jewish idea — that it can be a high honor to be a loser

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Jump the Line

How can we earn a spot toward the beginning of the line past the Kisei Rachamim on the Day of Judgment?

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Hold the Phone

Something as simple as the landline phone kept the members of a family connected to each other

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