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Ariella Schiller
Off the Couch
Jacob L. Freedman MD
5 to 9
Moe Mernick
Shul with a View
Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Off the Couch
Jacob L. Freedman MD
Step It Up
Anyone with Persian cousins, as I have, had heard this story in its many sad, sometimes miraculous variations   Moussa Chacham-Tzedek was a wealthy Persian businessman whose nephew, a rav I know, connected us. As we sat in his Jerusalem mansion, Amu (“Uncle”) Moussa revealed to me that he’d been diagnosed with a terminal illness —
Mindel Kassorla
Step It Up
When you focus on the now, the future becomes possible
Mindel Kassorla
TableScapes
I hope you can use this inspiration to create a beautiful table of your own
Shiri Feldman
TableScapes
Here’s a peek at what I did so you can create your own Yom Tov table — complete with elegant linen, stunning flowers, and complementary candlesticks.
Shiri Feldman
20 Questions for 20 Years
“It’s such a great feeling to hear about its impact, or to hear readers casually reference having a ‘Kichels moment’ or saying ‘we are the Kichels’”
20 Questions for 20 Years
“Considering every possible experience I’ve ever had lives somewhere in my subconscious, I usually manage to dig something up”
As They Grow
Rabbi Greenwald's column in Issue 1011, advising a mother with a daughter in shidduchim to clarify whether she wants a husband who learns or one who works, generated significant reader feedback. Two letters are presented here, along with Rabbi Greenwald's response.
Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald
As They Grow
Your problem is what we call “a rich man’s tzuris”
Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald
TripleSay
“Reading your question, what jumps out at me immediately is your deep desire for authenticity”
Faigy Peritzman
More The Mix
Double Take

They gave me the job, but won’t give me my space

By Rochel Samet

Off the Couch

“I want to ask you, how do I tell them everything else that I’ve never told them?”

By Jacob L. Freedman MD

On Site

The Kohn family has been beekeepers for three generations

By Chananel Shapiro

True Account

The key to my livelihood locked me out of real life

By Rivka Streicher

Cut ‘n Paste

To utilize time wisely and avoid wasting time, one must have a schedule, or as my mother called it, a “tochnit”

By Rabbi Yosef Sorotzkin

Second Thoughts

How can an observant and learned Jew, who dons tefillin every day and maintains Shabbos and kashrus, behave this way?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman