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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?”
Shoshana Itzkowitz
Windows
After years of parenting, that expression means one thing: pets
Peshie Needleman
Windows
She made me go out with a blockhead, but she can’t make me marry him
Esther Shemtov
Send Them Off as Jews
“You know,” I tell them, “what’s important now is just being here.”
Rabbi Daniel Rose
Send Them Off as Jews
Facing the end of life — or even seeing that possibility in the distant future — can be a gift, for all sorts of reasons
Rabbi Daniel Rose
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
Beltway Brief
If Trump’s first week is any indication, America’s in for a whirlwind of change
Jake Turx
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