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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

5 out of 10
Gaining weight and talking about losing weight

By Dovid Bashevkin

Double Take
Did the eighth-grade rebbi shut my son out of high school?

By Rochel (Grunewald) Samet

In the Balance
It’s hard to have family around in those situations

By Baruch S. Fertel, MD, MPA, FACEP

Match Quest
The short answer to your question is: You shouldn’t be doing this

By Sara Eisemann

Story Time
“His only redeeming quality is that he is as stubborn as an ox. He’ll never admit to failure”

By Y. Bromberg

Close Call
Smile, my brain screamed. Your best friend is getting married!

By Devoiry Braunstein