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Shoeless  
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My Son Is in the East   
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From Letting Go to Holding On
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An expert panel featuring Rabbi Menachem Karmel, Rabbi Zvi Bender and Rabbi Ari Schonfeld, moderated by Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan WATCH / LISTEN TO THE PANEL HERE
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Adjusting to The Day After: Children's Tech
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My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
Part of Something Bigger: Be'er HaTorah, Gateshead 
The boys would go home for Pesach and Succos, and the place lost its energy; the town became a shadow of itself
Rivka Streicher
My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
My Yeshivah — Home for Eternity: Shavuos 5782
There’s no doubt; school has undergone a series of subtle transformations “Don’t give any homework or any tests. No grades. Just show love and affection. And don’t ask girls why they haven’t come to school.” It was the early stage of the war in Israel, and after the initial shell-shocked weeks, when all schools were
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Facets
Facets: Chapter 26
“You find it easy to make friends?” Chana asked me sincerely. “I know how to be friendly, but a friend… I haven’t made one in a long time”
Esther Kurtz
Facets
Facets: Chapter 24
Was it possible to make a friend in two weeks? Maybe I can get Rafi to change the terms. I really, really wanted to go
Esther Kurtz
F is for Friendship
Why Work Hard?
“But, but….” I sounded like the sputtering last cup of soda in a slush machine. “That doesn’t make any sense,” I finally said
Ruchama Schnaidman
F is for Friendship
F is for Friendship
Tzivi wasn’t the writer, I thought. I glanced around the classroom. That left twenty-two other girls. Well, twenty-one because it wasn’t Penina
Ruchama Schnaidman
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After her son was critically wounded in Gaza, Dina and her family were surrounded by support — and miracles

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