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Personal Accounts
An enlightening and honest perspective on therapy from the client’s side of the couch, plus pointers on how to make treatment more effective, faster, and more fulfilling

By Rivky Stone

On Topic
 Everywhere a mama-to-be goes, she is swamped with well-meaning advice. Unfortunately, a lot of what is commonly accepted as standard information is actually misinformation, at be ...

By Rochel Burstyn

Family Matters
Over time, I took over all the tasks my husband z”l had been in charge of, jobs for which I had little aptitude and that I had avoided all my life

By Joan Zlotnick

Life Lab
For two days, I left the 21st century, traveled figuratively back 56 years, and tried to live my grandmother’s lifestyle

By Esther Kurtz

Center Stage
Huvy continued eating silently. She would not feel guilty. It was not her problem that her parents were divorced. She would not feel guilty

By Gila Arnold

More or Less
“You want to know the truth? No one likes supermen, or superwomen. They just make the rest of us feel inadequate”

By Esther Kurtz

LifeTakes
What this woman didn’t know, and couldn’t possibly have known, was just how loaded her simple question was

By Chaya Solomon

Parshah
In every mitzvah, a level of physical action is required

By Faigy Peritzman

Shul of My Youth
Ashkenazi Family + Sephardi Minyan + Yekkishe Shul= Achdus

By Yaacov Lipszyc

A Few Minutes With
After Pittsburgh and Poway, time to secure synagogues

By Omri Nahmias

Global View
Today a flier, tomorrow a shooting in a synagogue. Words matter, and the path from propagandist to killer can be short. We shouldn’t let our political leanings blind us to that fa ...

By Gershon Burstyn

All I Ask
There was only one option: to get expelled. Not that his parents would be happy with that option either, but for his freedom, he was willing to pay the price

By Ruti Kepler

Hit the Trail
Questions I have not been asked during Sefiras Ha’omer

By Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz

EndNote
The famous Yemenite “Dror Yikra”

By Riki Goldstein