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Knowing and Growing

Trees Teach Us about Growth

Rabbi Reuven Leuchter

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Open Mic

Our Teens Need to Hear the Truth about Vaping

Eric Bornstein

Guestlines

The Song of Shabbos

Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger

The Gadol Down the Block: Shavuos 5782

Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky — The House at the Bottom of the Hill

Rav Yaakov’s house was the lodestar of our family’s spiritual identity

Mrs. Suri Cohen

The Gadol Down the Block: Shavuos 5782

Rav Shlomo Zalman Friedman — Holy Fire

And then, one Friday night before Succos, the Rav’s home was destroyed in a devastating fire

Moshe Benoliel

Fire Fighters

Stop, Thief!

A small flicker, a smoldering ember. If left unchecked, it can become a raging inferno, consuming everything in its path. Unless someone stands tall and douses the flames. Four tales of courage

Fire Fighters

The Heat Is On

A flame left unchecked can become a raging inferno, consuming everything in its path. Unless someone stands tall and douses the flames. Four tales of courage

Devorah Grant

Day in the Life

Day in the Life of... Jonathan Heller

Jonathan Heller is the CEO of MikvaTech, a water purification company based in Jerusalem, where he lives

Rachel Bachrach

Day in the Life

A Day in the Life of...Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Resnick

"At first I called it the Shoel Umeishiv hotline, but a lot of boys don’t know what a shoel umeishiv is, so we changed it to Dial-a-Rebbi"

Rachel Bachrach

Yosef Chaim

What a Great Mistake

If we truly cared, they would too. It does not suffice to keep Shabbos by default. We must be passionate about Shabbos The current war, with its increasing casualties and the ongoing captivity of the hostages, is unspeakably painful. But the war has also exposed another, more subtle source of pain. The initial victims of

Shira Yehudit Djalilmand

Yosef Chaim

Yosef Chaim and the Time Machine

"What period in Jewish history would you like to go back in time to — and what would you do differently if you were there?!”

Shira Yehudit Djalilmand

Second Dance

Second Dance: Chapter 45

Reuven needed someone to ask a real question. Was anyone gutsy enough?

Dov Haller

Second Dance

Second Dance: Chapter 43

“Oh, I don’t know, I imagine you have dreams, like every rosh yeshivah, and maybe this can help you realize them?”

Dov Haller

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Open Mic

The Dignity They Deserve

The day before the wedding, I was visiting with my mother. She reached for my hand, looked me in the eye, and said, “Suren’yu, mein kind, I love you very much, and you know how much I love Chavi. I’m not coming to the wedding.”

By Sarah Moses Spero