Calligraphy
She doesn’t know Mo very well if she thinks he’s going to get his hands dirty with some Ikea furniture. He wouldn't even build our own furniture
Calligraphy
“Mommy’s fine. She’s turning ninety-two soon, she went through a lot in her life, She’s entitled to forget things every now and then”
Calligraphy
“They had just gotten married. Their relationship was just developing. If they lost the house it would be embedded in their marriage DNA forever. We had to help”
Calligraphy
Did Nechemiah learn there? Was it a yeshivah? He spent a lot of time there, and she knew he was learning chassidus (“mindblowing stuff,” he liked to tell them)
Calligraphy
Around her the kids are screaming, but Dena can hear something else. The hiss of onions maybe, an angry hiss, like they’re charring
Calligraphy
I want a detailed and unfiltered report. I wanted it so badly. I wanted to discover what it was about me that made my days just an endless chain of same, of boring predictability, ...
Calligraphy
“But this was always the plan. We were only ever foster parents to Josh. My sister never wanted to give him up for good”
Editor's Letter
You struggle and toil and build, and then it all comes down, but perhaps that’s the point. Perhaps the glory is in the effort, not the result
A Gift Passed Along
I printed that email in full and laminated it, and it hangs on my fridge to this day
For the Record
Lakewood, NJ had a few other “false starts” prior to Rav Aharon Kotler’s arrival there in 1943
A Promise Kept
Ayala, I try reasoning with myself. You have two options. You can either get to work making phone calls or you can cry
A Gift Passed Along
Life is like one big game of I Spy, looking for people who need a ride, directions, or help
Why I Do What I Do
This wasn’t just a couple of Jewish Agency contacts in Moscow with an interest in moving to Israel. It was an entire secret network, an entire Orthodox community that functioned u ...
A Promise Kept
“What do you think?” Reb Laizor thundered. “Without mussar I would be like that too!”
