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Shul with a View
Never Forget This
Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Double Take
Helping Hand
Rochel Samet
Cut ‘n Paste
Take Two   
Reva Kaiser Barbalatt
On Site
Tourist Trap    
Benny Waxler
Second Thoughts
A Dancing Dilemma
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Theme Section: Open Secrets
Open Secrets
So many of us carry secrets — some heavy, some light. Some that mean nothing, and some that change everything. Six writers tell stories of secrets kept, shared, and revealed
Family First Contributors
Map the Starlight
Map the Starlight: Afterword
Why do maps fascinate me? Partly because I love fault lines. The border between doubt and certainty. The place between choice, faith, passivity, and acceptance
Leah Gebber
Map the Starlight
Map the Starlight: Chapter 60
Who is he? A man who seeks goodness and truth, or a man who burns books and people? Is he heir to his great-grandfather’s legacy?
Leah Gebber
Battle Cry
A Kosher Home  
“Mi l’Hashem elai!” In every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem
Elana Moskowitz
Battle Cry
Bills of Life
“Mi l’Hashem elai!” In every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem
Malkie Schulman
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars: Epilogue
As long as I’m here, I’m given the strength. To endure. To survive and smile
Shira Gold
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars: Part 13
The steel, stinging bars weren’t only literal. I had nearly imprisoned my soul
Shira Gold
My Miracle
Happy Birthday
Alight. Five stories of salvation
Mindel Kassorla
My Miracle
My Miracle
Five stories of salvation
Family First Contributors
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Shul with a View
The Message

“It wasn’t supposed to be this way,” said Mr. Greenberg. “She was only 79, and I’m ten years older”

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

On Site
Hike to Heal    

When there’s a makolet on every block, foraging means more than edible plants

By Ariella Schiller

Second Thoughts
The Dark and the Light

Believing Jews have a mission in life and are in no hurry to experience what comes later

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Double Take
That’s the Plan  

My in-laws were the type to show up three days before Yom Tov and start planning everything the next morning

By Rochel Samet

Encounters
Saving the Succah     

BLOOD! Had I made a mistake in coming? I didn’t know if I could bear seeing that

By Rebecca (Feldbaum) Steier

Second Thoughts
The Mysterious Number Eight

It is a step beyond the natural, the number that transcends nature

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman