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Free Fall
Freefall took me 12 months — and 25 years — to write. Now that it’s over, while other old and new responsibilities bang at my door, I’ll ignore the knocking for a bit and share a short retrospective on life during Freefall
Miriam Stark Zakon
Free Fall
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
Miriam Stark Zakon
Pesach Made Peaceful
It’s not the food that makes memories, it’s the calm
Faigy Schonfeld
Pesach Made Peaceful
“When was the last time we ate a meal behind the dryer?”
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Shared Space
As the serial draws to a close, we reached out to voices of authority within the community to discuss some of the underlying threads of Shared Space. This week, Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger weighs in on the issue of hard moneylending
Dov Haller
Shared Space
Sometimes, the greatest gift parents can give their married children is the freedom to fail
Dr Meir Wikler
On Site
Today Avivi Shifris's groggers turn up for children all over — because he was once just like them
Chananel Shapiro
On Site
A trip to Mumbai where the unthinkable happened 
Sandy Eller
Family Diary
I look up at my husband, who is shuckling intently. “Would we do this if we had a baby?”
Chava Glick
Family Diary
The good news is that because I’m part of Klal Yisrael, I have an army of helpers along the way
Chava Glick
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