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On Topic
We all want our Shabbos tables to look perfect, but too often, real life diverges from these dreams. Our experts’ take on how to turn things around

By C.B. Lieber

I dare me
Here, we unload your home, step by step, and zone in on your goals, so you’ll discover how you can smoothly downsize

By Elisheva Appel

Family Tempo
A year before his bar mitzvah, our son Shalom said he didn’t want one.

By Ariella Mendel

Windows
Shabbos as a child was magical. It all started on Friday — you couldn’t have Shabbos without Erev Shabbos.

By Adina Soclof

Musings
Why do I feel the need to justify the depth of my sorrow? Why do we ascribe so little meaning to miscarriages, late miscarriages, and stillbirths?

By Esther Kurtz

Care to Join
These stories happen every day, and if I wrote them all down, the magazine would become a book. But I can’t stop from sharing Jake’s story

By Leah Greene

Center Stage
Huvy kept her eyes on the water. She’d always been a terrible liar, but her mother heard what she wanted to hear

By Gila Arnold

The Gatekeeper's Daughter
The Tzaddik clutches Leibel’s hand. “Especially the daughter, Leibel. We can help her more in Eretz Yisrael. Your family, maybe, could help them?”

By Esther Teichtal

EndNote
“Could I leave the country right before my son’s bris?”

By Riki Goldstein

EndNote
“To inspire and bring people closer to the Eibeshter”

By Riki Goldstein

EndNote
“Continue doing what you have to do”

By Riki Goldstein

Off the Couch
“My whole family suffers depression, but that’s not me”

By Jacob L. Freedman MD

Second Thoughts
One can judge a person by what he stands in line for

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

5 to 9
“Creating wealth, in Judaism, isn’t fraught with evil”

By Moe Mernick