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Profiles
In honor of his seventh yahrtzeit, Rav Elyashiv’s daughter, Rebbetzin Sura Yisraelson, recalls a childhood among giants

By C.S. Teitelbaum

Personal Accounts
On trips to Poland, the next generation returns, remembers, and rebuilds. What do they find in tiny hamlets, forgotten cemeteries, and crematoria gone cold?

By Family First Contributors

Family Matters
I know this sounds unbelievable. A doctor who, for a year, would advise me — a person he’d never met — over the phone about a patient he had never seen?

By Joan Zlotnick

Real Life
The results of that tube will determine whether or not his brain will be affected for life, and you’ll desperately daven, in a way that you’ve never davened in your life

By Elana Rothberg

Musings
I can wear those comfy Ecco shoes to the wedding and no one will ask me why. Oh, the sadness of it all

By Susie Netzer

Yardsticks
“Wow,” the mother whispered when I held up the dress. “It’s… wow”

By Esty Heller

LifeTakes
Residents would complain about the dimly lit streets; I embraced the darkness

By Ashira Becker

Parshah
The zechus of consistency: “They are those who seek Me daily”

By Faigy Peritzman

Win or Lose
Who would have ever believed that he, Yitzy Levinson, the boy who never paid attention in class, could have done such a thing?

By Chaim Finkelstein

Close Call
Something struck me about this incident. Something strange and shocking. Something I didn’t dare tell Ahuva

By Devoiry Braunstein

Magazine Feature
Can you hold tight to your principles at the Vegas trade fairs?

By Yisroel Groweis

Washington Wrap
It appears the Knesset elections will determine not only the next government, but also Israel’s diplomatic face in America for the coming years

By Omri Nahmias

LifeLines
I couldn't look in the mirror without constant shame and blame

By C. Saphir

Outlook
“The Torah is perfect. Its adherents are not”

By Yonoson Rosenblum