Magazine Feature
How to handle your child’s tantrums without losing your cool, plus when emotional outbursts are a sign of a bigger problem
Personal Accounts
Back when we were the kids, candy was precious — it was love, comfort, adventure, companionship. Writers share their sugar-laced recollections
Change of Heart
I didn’t want to do it in fear. I wanted to do it with trust. The ride of my life
Family Tempo
The contractor made it very clear that this was a dumb idea. “You can’t fix a roof in the rain,” he declared
Musings
I see it in the drunk boys, the girls with caked-on makeup, both desperate for attention, searching, wondering, yearning for something they themselves are unsure of
Map the Starlight
“If their menfolk are lost in the ocean’s waves, then these women will curse you and your luck will fail, and most likely your fortune too”
Normal Like Me
No one in the village knew just what a mobile network was, but it was something bad, that much was clear
Double Take
Logically we knew it shouldn’t matter — even if Tziporah’s parents viewed us as failures, it wasn’t true. But emotionally it was too much to handle
Oneg Shabbos
They’d waited years to be blessed with a child. Would their deal with G-d be wiped away minutes after it was fulfilled?
