Leah straightens her back and lets the fabric slacken. “Ah, the Rebbe.” Her tone softens. “Der Tzaddik hot gezogt. Do I know better than the Tzaddik?”
LifeTakes
Before is your cookies and cupcakes, sesame chicken and sweet-and-sour meatballs, Wednesday night schnitzel. Roast on Yom Tov, a second potato kugel for Friday afternoon, and spel ...
Profiles
When Chaya Levy was diagnosed with cancer, she resolved she'd give her unborn child the greatest gift: life. Throughout her illness, she fought to see only Hashem’s good — and to ...
Magazine Feature
Seemingly innocent baby toys and products may be harmful. Check out the research behind ten different baby products to see how you can minimize their risks or avoid them in the fi ...
Magazine Feature
I was feeling stuck, stuck, stuck when I saw the ad for the therapeutic writing workshop. I was leery — but intrigued. For six weeks, I wrote. And things began to shift.
Family Tempo
That was the truth, the decor was amazing — clean lines, but rounded edges for softness, fresh colors, big dressing rooms, room for Mommy and kid and carriage, a play area for lit ...
Windows
No principal, teacher, or mother ever behaved condescendingly because of my secular background. It was just the energy and concentration it took to keep up with all the nuances.
Center Stage
Boy, did she sound dumb now. Rushing to explain herself, she said quickly, “Okay, so why does an introvert with a capital ‘I’ try out for a role in a movie?”
Crisscross
Ima looks upset. “He said,” she whispers, “that he’s willing to trade. He will get his son and we can keep his daughter.”
Profiles
Jason Weiner never dreamed he’d be a hospital chaplain. But the nationally recognized expert on medical halachah and pastoral counseling helps Jewish patients make the most import ...
Story Time
“I’m not letting your husband free until he can dance the hopak in my bear costume. How do you like that, eh?”
F is for Friendship
I roll my eyes. It’s the first time I can remember wishing that Penina lived too far away from my house to just walk over.
News In Depth
On a personal level, Binyamin Netanyahu’s official state visit to Lithuania marked a homecoming to the land from which his grandparents fled. On-site report.
Profiles
The mainstream press calls him a “rogue” for caucusing with the Republicans in the New York Senate, but locally, he’s the guy in the back of the shul who gets things done.
