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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

Story Time
An entire year passed before another assassination was attempted. This time the results were disastrous

By Y. Bromberg

The Rainbow Girl
Satisfied that no one was listening, she leaned closer and murmured, “I can’t tell you now. Later, when we’re alone, okay?”

By Rochel (Grunewald) Samet

Magazine Feature
Zoologist-turned-rabbi Dr. Yisrael Meir Levinger stands up for shechitah

By Gedalia Guttentag

Washington Wrap
Trump vs. The Squad, a forerunner of 2020?

By Omri Nahmias

Metro & Beyond
The race for who will be New York’s 110th mayor is already beginning to solidify

By Yochonon Donn

Point of View
We vacationers have an added responsibility

By Rabbi Moshe Grylak zt"l