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In Name Only

Eytan Kobre

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Lost Liberals

Eytan Kobre

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Unstuck

Eytan Kobre

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Unexpected Emissary

Eytan Kobre

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Speech Therapy

Eytan Kobre

For the Record

Tell the World!

Reb Shea shouldered the burden of sharing the story of the great destruction of Jewish history in Europe, a mandate he received from one of the greatest tzaddikim murdered at the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rav Shulem Leizer Halberstam of Ratzfert

Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

For the Record

To Mourn or Not to Mourn

American Jews now found themselves caught between their desire to express solidarity with the nation and reverence for Lincoln, and the need to observe the traditions of their faith

Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Works of Art

The Best Banner

“Maybe we’ll do it your way in the end, but if someone else has a different idea, they’re allowed to say it!”

Zivia Reischer

Works of Art

The Painting

She looked down at the canvas, moving it in the moonlight until she could see the image it held

Malka Winner

Torah Thought

A New Commentary for a Changed World

Torah leaders confronting the Enlightenment were forced to develop innovative and original approaches to preserving and transmitting the mesorah. Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch’s groundbreaking commentary on Chumash stands out.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff

It Happened at Midnight: Pesach Theme 5783

And It Happened at Midnight

While the world dreams and the stars twinkle, the Creator neither slumbers nor sleeps. Ten stories of midnight miracles, epiphanies, and revelations

Family First Contributors

Rocking Horse

Everywhere and Nowhere

I suppose this story is my plea to the world: Don’t let this happen. To anyone. Anywhere. Anytime

Leah Gebber

Rocking Horse

Rocking Horse: Chapter 58

If we’re going to find fault with the way frum people speak, I think the issue is more attitudinal rather than linguistic Writing in a secular Jewish publication about the way frum people speak guarantees lots of curious readers, but it has its risks, too. That much is evident from a recent article at

Leah Gebber

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Cash Cow

The problem when societies, or individuals for that matter, start feeling superior to everyone else

By Eytan Kobre

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Fast in a Mask

Purim — that manic mélange of mirth, mashkeh and mishloach manos — a fast day in disguise?

By Eytan Kobre