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It doesn’t come easy, but that’s why we daven for it. Let us truly be in the succah
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Emboldened, and hoping he didn’t sound bitter, Ephraim persisted. “Yeah, but everyone has family and memories, there’s something else here”
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Too many compliments in one sentence. Shraga nods his thanks and waits for the other shoe to drop
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“Sure.” I said yes because I was supposed to, but I really wanted to run away and vomit
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JJ wouldn’t have schmoozed anyway. He would have grilled him. Worse, he would have said no to the boy right off the bat
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I liked spinning with Lily. She was my twin, and aside for her ugly hair and white skin, we looked exactly alike
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Run for Refuah and Save a Life, the banner reads. Nice. I hover over the Click to Sponsor tab, and my eye catches something else
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“New York’s the place to be,” Shifra says innocuously, and as she’s saying it, she feels her heart accordion open, then close
Magazine Feature
How chassidic activist Moshe Margareten saved desperate Afghans from the Taliban
Guests of Honor
Is it true that love is blind? Doesn’t it hurt her anew every time she thinks of how her son rejected the world she chose?
Freeze Frame
Find a way to involve your children in something that you’d ordinarily attempt to get done alone
Inbox
"In today’s age of lavish kiddushim, my best memory of this shtetl shul was entering the little kiddush hall and seeing the survivors drinking a l’chayim"
Guests of Honor
Like Aharon HaKohein facing the death of his two sons, Zeidy Pavel remained silent
