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Musings
No need to ask Ma for help — in any case, Ma can’t remember where Ma put anything so long ago, before Pesach a ...

By Chava Rochelle Vodka

Free Fall
Moe is sent to the front lines to serve as a translator. Abe’s division is also sent to combat, and he’s been pro ...

By Miriam Stark Zakon

House of Mirrors
Sarah calms Laylee just before the hearing. Laylee agrees to sign up Cookie for dance camp. Norman and Gavi’s father ar ...

By Rachael Lavon

Learning Curve
Esti comes to Aviva’s house and offers help. Aviva’s mother criticizes Chavi for not being as helpful as Esti, and Aviv ...

By Gila Arnold

LifeTakes
There’s no supper, not in the oven, not in the fridge — not even on the agenda — as I enter my apartment at ...

By Shevy Hollander

Family Reflections
Expressing feelings without getting defensive leads to healing,

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Magazine Feature
Just over a month ago, the Jewish world lost one of its last links to the world of Sarah Schenirer and prewar Eur ...

By Esther Teichtal

Sister Shmooze
Mess-Ups, and Mayhem,In choosing this month’s theme, we weren’t looking for profound truths or deep thoughts. We were just ...

By Emmy Leah Stark Zitter and Marcia Stark Meth and Miriam Stark Zakon

Grab the Reins
As I spent time at Retorno, I got hooked on the people, the realness. On the process going on around me and, soon ...

By Shoshana Schwartz

Connect Two
Mordy learns about flexibility, a new concept for him,

By D. Himy, M.S. CCC-SLP and Zivia Reischer

Jewish Geography
Democracy Sickbed, Not DeathbedFractiousness Can be a Sign of Health and Vitality

By Binyamin Rose

LifeLines
The problem wasn’t that Avi wanted to go the army. It was that we had no way of getting him out of army servic ...

By C. Saphir

Off the Couch
Ari had a bad case of schizophrenia, but boring he was not…,

By Jacob L. Freedman MD

Parshah
In truth, there’s no one to blame or credit except yourself

By Faigy Peritzman