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Magazine Feature
Given the vast amount of energy we invest into shidduchim, it’s no wonder singles and their parents tend to analyze, and overanalyze, every bit of information

By Elisheva Appel

Magazine Feature
Some women do more than dress up for their sisters’ wedding day. They plan and finance the entire simchah, in the place of a parent who can’t

By Bracha Yaari

Turning Tides
What would Rivka want her bas mitzvah to look like, now that there could be none of the big ideas she’d dreamed about?

By Leah Gebber

Change of Heart
A tiny pause, like she wasn’t sure if she should believe me. “You understand why I’m asking. If there’s a medical issue, we need to know”

By Leora Hammer

Family Tempo
As the date of the bar mitzvah drew closer, everything seemed to be under control. (Don’t ever say that phrase out loud. Ever. I mean it)

By Perel Grossman

Windows
Would Rochie be able to sleep tonight? What were her thoughts as she stood alone in her kitchen with my news buzzing in her brain?

By Chaya Joseph

Musings
Fine, so I broke a hundred of Sarah Chana Radcliffe’s rules at once. Lock me up

By Esty Heller

Encounters
I can sense she’s enamored of our kollel lifestyle, about the simplicity, about the inner happiness that radiates from our home. So perhaps I should disillusion her

By Elana Rothberg

Family First Feature
“At a certain point, we realized that we would be the ones who would have to marry her off — there simply wasn’t anyone else to do it.”

By Bracha Yaari

EndNote
I’d never seen such an emotional kallah in my life. Later, she thanked me, and she told me that this song had turned her life around

By Riki Goldstein

Normal Like Me
Avitzedek sang and beat his drum. Faigy found herself entranced for a moment. Looking at the boys’ faces, she was surprised to see deep respect

By Ruti Kepler

LifeLines
There are times in your life when you feel that Hashem is speaking directly to you, and this was one of them

By C. Saphir

Oneg Shabbos
Rav Aharon of Premishlan may have had humble beginnings. But news of his powers soon spread far and wide

By Yeruchem Yitzchak Landesman

The Explainer
Will Congress stump up for Trump’s border wall to protect the Dreamers?

By Omri Nahmias