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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

Text Messages

By Eytan Kobre

Outlook
Israel isn’t yet suffocated by political correctness

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Screenshot
What are we giving and what are we getting?

By Shoshana Friedman

LifeTakes
We contemplate and ask sh’eilos and discuss and discuss some more; the bris is only a day away and we haven’t yet decided on a name

By Chana Goodman

The Gatekeeper's Daughter
All Yisrael… A tentative voice springs from the corner of her mind. That would mean the scholar and the shochet. The butcher and candlemaker

By Esther Teichtal

News In Depth
Last week’s runoff elections for Jerusalem’s mayor might have had an uninspired 31% voter turnout. But for the yeshivish activists who took to the streets, and for Rav Chaim Kanie ...

By Yisroel Besser