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Musings
It’s not like we’re talking about things that are unimportant, we’re just not talking about the things that so many people are scared to talk about

By Miriam Klein Adelman

On Topic
How people cope and hope when illness is embedded in their family’s genes

By Eliana Cline

Sister Shmooze
This will be the fiftieth time we’re sharing our thoughts and dreams and fears, our frequent laughs and occasional tears, with de gantze mishpuchah of Mishpacha readers

By Emmy Leah Stark Zitter and Marcia Stark Meth and Miriam Stark Zakon

Fiction
She glanced in the mirror and reapplied her lipstick. She was becoming her mother. But it wouldn’t hurt to look presentable

By Adina Lover

936 Sundays
As the outdoors gets darker and our windows frostier, the indoors gets warmer and our homes cozier. Let’s take the coziness up a notch with some Kislev-themed activities

By Sara Wolf

Windows
We can all agree that there are, in fact, two kinds of people in this world. People who cook in advance and freeze, and people who don’t

By Yael Zoldan

Care to Join
Somehow, between labor and delivery, I’d learned that Nava is extremely left-wing secular. Now I commented, “Whoa, it must be really hard to work here in a snowstorm”

By Leah Greene

Center Stage
It wasn’t that Rina begrudged helping — this was her husband’s mother, after all — but she did resent the attitude. Never a word of thanks

By Gila Arnold

Off the Couch
“Get me a real doctor from Harvard who speaks Persian!”

By Jacob L. Freedman MD

Second Thoughts
This is why I asked, “What difference does it make?”

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

5 to 9
“When you set a goal, it’s going to take lots of effort”

By Moe Mernick

5 out of 10
Different answers to “So, what is it you do?”

By Dovid Bashevkin

Guestlines
Striving for the same thing: to be servants of Hashem

By Alexandra Fleksher

Voice in the Crowd
We’re fighting over something that means the world to us

By Yisroel Besser