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Profiles
A tribute to Rebbetzin Raizel Faskowitz a”h

By Ariella Schiller

On Topic
Chronic complaining can affect your health, relationships, and happiness. How to cut the kvetching.

By Malkie Schulman

Make It Work
You’ve likely been told there’s no way you can make a living writing. Meet 5 women who turned their love of writing into a viable career

By Miriam Milstein

Family Tempo
We had saved up our rubles, and now we needed to find a tree that was both lush and cheap, so we could use it for Xmas

By Goldie Young

Musings
When I’m in a social situation and I feel uncomfortable, I regurgitate random facts. And when I say facts, I use this term loosely

By Adina Soclof

Center Stage
“For whatever reason, you have this idea stuck in your mind that you’re not worth being friends with. And that’s just plain wrong”

By Gila Arnold

The Gatekeeper's Daughter
At the squelch of mud, she starts. She peeks over the wall. A police car is parked by the curb, two uniformed men beside it

By Esther Teichtal

More or Less
“He made a comment to the shadchan, something like ‘Does she have a feminine side?’ I’m not even sure what he meant, but I want to look more…”

By Esther Kurtz

Ideas in 3 Dimensions

By Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin

LifeTakes
Now, with a home of my own, including recipe books and a husband who makes fun of my old-fashioned cravings, I understand

By Ariella Schiller

Win or Lose
Zev stuck his head into the room. “Um… Mommy… Tatty… Do you remember the vase full of flowers that used to be on the dining room table?”

By Chaim Finkelstein

Point of View
It was there, in Mitzrayim, that we became a nation

By Rabbi Moshe Grylak zt"l

Shared Space
Kivi felt bad for his father-in-law, who genuinely didn’t see himself as better or more entitled than those who had less money than he

By Dov Haller

True Account
She didn’t give up. “The music on the radio is garbage,” she insisted. “Can’t you play a Jewish CD for the kids?”

By Ronnie Chemtob