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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

By Ariella Schiller

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”

By Blimi Rabinowitz

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“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”

By Esther Kurtz

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)

By Dov Haller

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

By Rivka Streicher

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, ...

By Esty Heller

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”

By Rochel Samet

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

By Yisroel Besser

A Promise Kept
My companions  — along with the bag I was counting on to keep us alive — vanished in the chaos

By Yael Schuster

Why I Do What I Do
No longer would I be a businessman who squeezed in some medical consulting between meetings. From now on, I realized, I had to devote the bulk of my day to medical advocacy

By Sandy Eller

A Gift Passed Along
But that wasn’t all: next Rav Yaakov Meir spoke of the heart — the Yiddishe heart! 

By Avraham Elbaz

Magazine Feature
What exactly happened to the grapes and wines described in Tanach, Mishnah, and Gemara? The quest to decant new wines from ancient grapes

By Gershon Burstyn

Musings
It’s walking through the sea while G-d turns the world upside down, it’s shaking in awe of His power to upend the natural order and create a nation

By Rachael Lavon

Jr. Feature
Destination: the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as “Russia”

By Malka Grunhaus