Second Guessing: Responses
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Family Tempo
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The new sheitelmacher is charging double — and stealing my clients
Ariella Schiller
Ariella Schiller lives with her family in Jerusalem, where she’ll dabble in almost anything involving words.
She works as a proofreader by day, novelist by night, and occasionally sleeps.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023
“Guys in yeshivah started asking me for haircuts, and I gained a reputation for being good with a scissors and a trimmer”
DMCs
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
I would find myself crying not for Kaila and her family, but for the simplicity of my own life before this all happened
Serial
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Akiva wondered if one day he, too, would be shutting down his kids’ creative ideas… in the name of being a Frankel
Teen Serial
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
I am NOT spending Shabbos alone with Ma and Ta. I refuse
Jr. Fiction
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Talia bangs her shoulder gently into mine. “You know you’re getting the main part. You always do”
LifeTakes
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
I wait. I wait for the birth pangs, I wait for the mourning. But both are slow in coming
Teen Serial
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
We share a snickerdoodle in silence; Libby makes no comment about fats and sugars, she just chews thoughtfully
Serial
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Libby’s voice, so calm and methodical moments ago, was now high and tinged with something he refused to call anxiety
Teen Serial
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
I turn around slowly. This is not happening. Teachers are not using lunchtime to have PTA with my mother, are they?
Serial
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Akiva blinked. Was that the end of his pitch? He had cards in his pocket; he’d been practicing the whole flight here
