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Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
I was the stereotypical newlywed, setting up my best friend with my husband’s kid brother

By Esty Heller

Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Disgust is really the only way to describe her facial expression. And the worst part is I know I deserve it

By Ariella Schiller

Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
My heart squeezes because he’s captured the crux of his problem: It really may be too late

By Michal Marcus

Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
WHY DOES MY SON CARE ABOUT A SPORTS TEAM, and WHY DID I SWITCH HIM OUT OF THE YESHIVISH CLASS?

By Esther Kurtz

Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
She watches him fearfully as he goes to pieces berating himself: the self-blame, self-hatred, the regret, the desperation

By Rivka Streicher

Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
“We can give Bayla a different role... Let the star role go to someone who deserves it”

By Rochel Samet

Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
Ninth-grade bochurim would huddle in a corner, daring each other to make the plunge and ask Mordy a question

By Shmuel Botnick

Calligraphy: Pesach 5784
How could Yaakov, an ordinary bochur with ordinary interests (sports! grilling! power tools!), ever really understand someone who’s so different?

By Bashie Lisker

Magazine Feature
Globetrotter Moshe Klein finds a minyan of one in Eritrea

By Sandy Eller

Fiction
I don’t want to get involved — but I need to

By Esty Heller

The Moment
“We have to ‘fly low’ in order to avoid the yetzer hara’s radar”

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

LifeTakes
Tonight is different. Because my father, at 77 years, is under the spell of dementia

By Razey Segal

True Account
I knew right then that if I was saved, I would do complete teshuvah

By Chananel Shapiro

Guestlines
The memory of that first Pesach reminds us that no matter how hopeless the galus seems, it is inalterably finite

By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky