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The Gifts That Keep on Giving
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Moving On!
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Of Voids and Empty Nests
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Three Lights
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Transitions
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Therapy Toolbox
Full Worth
“I know what the feeling is. It’s…” Batsheva took a deep, shuddering breath. “It’s like I can’t stand being in my own skin….”
Abby Delouya B.A, B.Ed, MFT
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The Teen Tightrope
How to break free when your teen is holding the family hostage
Abby Delouya B.A, B.Ed, MFT
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By Design
“She really has to come live here. She should be near us. What else does she need at this point besides us and our children, her nachas?”
Rivka Streicher
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Surface Deep
“I was in Reb Azarya’s office. You know the picture of the baby on his desk? The picture of… of….” He took a deep breath. “Yisroel?”
Shmuel Botnick
tastes like shabbos
Shabbos with Bayla Katzman
Just the word itself brings waves of nostalgia for the beautiful Shabbosos of my childhood
Family Table Readers
tastes like shabbos
Chicken Soup for Hundreds — with Love and Joy
A teacher and a mother, Rebbetzin Machlis cooked for several hundred guests every Shabbos for decades
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz
The Last Flask
The Last Flask
And then they found it — the last flask, the small bottle that would enable them to start anew. 12 writers share the last flask that lit up their own lives rattle of hope
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Profiles
A Page from His Book
Rabbi Meyer Yedid is showing how the power of a daf Gemara can reshape not only a person, but an entire community
Yisroel Besser
Profiles
Front-Row Seat to History 
As Israel’s ambassador Ron Dermer is about to leave his Washington posting after seven years, he recaps the challenges and triumphs of a transformative term
Gedalia Guttentag
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I Am a Bubba

Yes, I thought, baruch Hashem, we have a very different definition of “grandparent” than earlier generations

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Opportunities Abound

Her smile, warmth, and interest always made me feel that I was her best friend

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Sentimental Decluttering: An Oxymoron?       

Like a geological formation, there are layers and layers of sentimental strata among my clutter

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Remembering Earlier Chapters 

Akiva had been given this siddur by his rebbi in fifth grade, and he’d carried it in his tefillin bag

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Voicing Our Thoughts in the Year to Come!

“Eureka!” I thought. “That’s it! Texting: a blessing or a nightmare? A gift or the curse of modern technology?”

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Secrets of a Long Life

I’m not lonely because I have friends I can call 24/6 who genuinely care

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