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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

5 out of 10
My Top 5 favorites for moving along the conversation

By Dovid Bashevkin

Text Messages
Here and there, little vestiges of Tishrei persist

By Eytan Kobre

Outlook
One such test with a happy (in this world) ending

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Point of View
Fault lines that threaten our country’s heart and soul

By Rabbi Moshe Grylak zt"l

LifeTakes
And so we moved out of town. Said goodbye to all the comforts I took for granted. Goodbye to everything familiar and delicious

By Baila Perl

LifeLines
When I saw these boys winking at her, I knew it was time to take drastic action

By C. Saphir