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For Keeps: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5783
Standing Guard
I can see the shul from my dining room window. The idea that it was so close, yet so far, was too much to bear
Binyomin Yudin 
For Keeps: Rosh Hashanah Theme 5783
No Greater Treasure     
“He would be killed just for having it in his possession. But a Torah is a Torah and my father was determined to save it”
Sandy Eller
Eternal Wall: Pesach Theme 5782
Sacred Route
Motti Levy’s been driving for Egged since 1969, when access to the Kosel was still a newly won thrill
Penina Steinbruch
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Eternal Wall: Editors' Letter
We hope you can savor this offering as we pray for the time when the Kosel will again be not a final destination, but a gateway to Hashem’s presence on earth
Nomee Shaingarten and Shoshana Friedman
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There really is no safe place
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This Isn’t the KIRUV of 2010
This dual focus — on Torah growth, and maintaining Jews’ last Jewish connection — is one that kiruv organizations should embrace
Gedalia Guttentag
Build your best
Build Your Best: Lemonade
This is the ugliest face of city and state leadership M ayor Bill de Blasio rolled the dreidel in the summer when teachers’ unions were opposing his plan to open schools, and it came out at 3 percent. That is, when the COVID-19 test positivity rates for students reached 3 percent, he assured the unions —
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