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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

Metro & Beyond
How New York’s rent control laws threaten Orthodox livelihoods

By Yochonon Donn

Spotlight
The former London mayor and foreign secretary will bring charisma and irreverent humor to the tough job of taking Britain out of the European Union.

By Gedalia Guttentag

Text Messages
Herman Wouk “made G-d a bestseller”

By Eytan Kobre

Tribute
"To me, every Jew is a sugya”

By Rabbi Yaakov Klein

All I Ask
How long could he keep up this playacting in a role that demanded so much? He was a good actor, her husband

By Ruti Kepler

Standing Ovation
May we all share simchahs, no strings attached!

By Dovid Nachman Golding