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Fiction
If she could paint, Nina would run color onto every surface she could reach. The bed linen. The IV pole. The wall

By Rochel (Grunewald) Samet

Personal Accounts
Playground. Oasis. Hideaway. Magical Kingdom. Twenty-two women tell of sun and swings, treehouses and tranquility

By Family First Contributors

On Topic
Even simple choices aren’t always so simple to make. What’s behind our decisions — and how we can make better ones,

By Shira Yehudit Djalilmand

Map the Starlight
The place was a blaze of candles and lanterns. “Mallorca must be doing well, to afford such light,” Papa had murmured. ...

By Leah Gebber

Learning Curve
Dini Goldfeder shows up at Suri’s house late at night, in the middle of a severe manic episode

By Gila Arnold

Grab the Reins
I was very worried about her. She had so much fear inside her, so much pain, and so few tools to navigate those ...

By Shoshana Schwartz

LifeTakes
It is hard to imagine our elderly Bobby any way other than the way we see her: an old, opinionated, somewhat stern, ...

By Elana Rothberg

Parshah
A rule for the entire Torah

By Faigy Peritzman

Smart Eats
Peas and thank you!

By Shira Isenberg, RD, MPH

Voice in the Crowd
Men outside and in the back

By Yisroel Besser

EndNote
The brachos of Shabbos Mevarechim

By Riki Goldstein

Jewish Geography
Majority rule may be a cornerstone of democracy, but when it comes to the Kosel, the law is not on their side

By Yisrael Feller

LifeLines
Who’s going to marry him? I asked myself. Who but I, the friend of the downtrodden, the patron of the needy.

By C. Saphir