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Magazine Feature
Frum housewife-turned-activist Linda Sadacka and her band of “Moms on a Mitzvah” won’t rest until they do all they can ...

By Barbara Bensoussan

Personal Accounts
Netanel’s mother was pale and drawn. Elinor watched as she wiped a stray tear, gathered her bag, and walked out of t ...

By Chaya Yankelowitz

Real Life
This was a viper, slowly slithering, evil, horror, mouth suddenly gaping, fangs exposed. The mouth of hell. The human mind ...

By Rayzel Reich

Musings
I tried to cry as silently as possible — I’m good at it. My grandmother turned to me and whispered: “We don’t get ...

By Miriam Maggid

Map the Starlight
“The way you talk, always talk, quoting scholars to Papa, and Papa quotes back to you. And all I must do is sit ...

By Leah Gebber

Learning Curve
Hoping the peal hadn’t woken her children, she ran to the door. Standing on her doorstep were the last two people Ya ...

By Gila Arnold

Grab the Reins
Was I ready for this? Could I combine what I’d learned at the ranch with everything I’d learned about addiction and ...

By Shoshana Schwartz

LifeTakes
Erev Tishah B’Av. We were two (mostly nice, mostly good) Bais Yaakov girls seeking the answer to a critical question: C ...

By Michal Eisikowitz

Profiles
It was in Bergen-Belsen that Kraus acquired the nickname “Moishele der Zinger,” singing to fellow prisoners, “to make people ...

By Machla Abramovitz

Cut ‘n Paste
For the first time since we met, I had nothing to say to my friend .

By Shmuel Botnick

Normal Like Me
He — the child always a bit behind, a bit slow; the reject, the anxiety-ridden young man who was never good enough ...

By Ruti Kepler

Guestlines
Turn every tear into a prayer

By Rabbi Yehoshua Kurland

Parshah
Now vs. future potential

By Faigy Peritzman

Magazine Feature
The Kosel Hakatan, a segment of the Western Wall in the Muslim Quarter, is considered the point closest to the Kodesh ...

By Aharon Granot