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Personal Accounts
Two grown women, each paralyzed with fear at the thought of boarding a plane. A therapist uses innovative techniques to uncover the layers beneath the phobia and enables them to h ...

By Esty Heller

On Topic
The fresh-off-the-plane-from-seminary girl’s guide to landing your first job — and succeeding at it

By Family First Contributors

Family Matters
The questions I’m referring to are those that keep whirling around in our heads without any hope of resolution

By Joan Zlotnick

Fiction
“He is a prince of the Talmud,” a feverish boy whose dark eyes burned and shimmered in the smudgy light of a lamp told me

By Ora McCarthy

Windows
When every Melanie and Karen and Cindy started to be called Michal and Rivka and Chaya, I realized I’d taken for granted the treasure I’d been given

By Miriam Katz

Center Stage

By Gila Arnold

Yardsticks
I wondered what was up with that seamstress, but I couldn’t dwell on her. The Kohlmans were waiting for me to design a gown that would make headlines. It was going to be a long ni ...

By Esty Heller

LifeTakes
I steal a look at the girls. They’re writing, writing. What about me? I taught them this, the words they’re stringing together so fast and sure

By Rivka Streicher

Family Reflections
When it comes to parenting, we’re always learning

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Jr. Feature
What’s the one thing that will make graduates feel better? That makes them laugh and cry, that will never quite lose its ability to bring on those nostalgic feelings about those p ...

By Rochel Burstyn

The Rainbow Girl
Morah Hertz’s eyes narrowed even more, until she was practically squinting. “So, chutzpah as well?” she said softly, but in a voice icy as the rink itself

By Rochel (Grunewald) Samet

Profiles
The couples who attend Hitkashroot have a serious problem: one spouse is religious and one is not. Through a course of seminars — and lots of work at home — these couples learn ho ...

By Gershon Burstyn

Washington Wrap
Peace not on the agenda as Abbas boycotts Bahrain

By Omri Nahmias

Outlook
Another progressive revolution that eats its own

By Yonoson Rosenblum