Center Stage
Rina’s eyes shone. “Girl power! Frum teenage girls are going to unite to bring the Geulah! Can you imagine the impact of such a message?”
Magazine Feature
When bright lights or noisy crowds or seemingly normal smells and tastes drive you crazy — something more might be at play
Magazine Feature
Artist Ellen Filreis collaborated with her daughter, teacher Ayelet Ribakow, to create a Jewish “I Spy” book that’s more than a reading experience
Musings
My husband, wide-eyed, can’t believe how I get it all done, and I just smile and bask in his pride
Windows
Suddenly it is not about me and not about the girls whose hands I am holding steel tight. It is about all of our hands
Map the Starlight
I never gave you that letter. I regret this now. It was selfish, wrong. But take a moment to understand the foolishness of an old man
On the House
How dare she! How dare Shana judge and proclaim and offer her wonderful ideas, while cozied up on her couch thousands of miles away
LifeTakes
I can’t shake my fear of rejection. With graduation, I believed that I’d waved goodbye to the inferiority complexes that had invaded my younger self
Normal Like Me
“They just settle themselves down and keep taking. And I don’t like people — or birds — that don’t know their place”
Shared Space
This was different. This was a new game, with new rules, and there weren’t too many people he could ask
Tech Talk
I know what I’m doing is dangerous and irresponsible, but when push comes to shove and my phone dings, I always give a quick glance
LifeLines
After years of outreach and Shabbos meals, I realized my guest just wanted the cholent
Shul of My Youth
In 1948, for parnassah reasons, my parents moved to Spring Valley, Illinois, a hamlet about 100 miles southwest of Chicago in the center of coal country
