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Family First Feature
Once, there were no custom sheitels, kosher cookbooks, and seminaries. These pioneers changed that

By Elisheva Appel

A Promise Kept
Sometime during that awful era, I began fiddling around on the piano

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

A Promise Kept
Ayala, I try reasoning with myself. You have two options. You can either get to work making phone calls or you can cry

By Ayala Feigenbaum

A Promise Kept
I can feel the strain through the thread. I am over effusive; she is cordial. Don’t touch me

By Shana Reicher

A Promise Kept
Baba’s loving sentiments that the all-but-forgotten promise conveyed were dear to my heart

By Avigail Rabinowitz

A Promise Kept
“What do you think?” Reb Laizor thundered. “Without mussar I would be like that too!”

By Miriam Milstein

A Promise Kept
We’d created a haven for them to unburden their hearts, and sent them away with the sweetness of home cooking

By Millie Samson

A Promise Kept
Not all promises are lost. One remains. It’s the one I made long ago

By Yocheved Katz

A Gift Passed Along
Mr. Reifman was an “alter Europa’esha Yid,” who had learned to lein in his hometown shtetl in Europe

By Uri Benjamin

A Gift Passed Along
“Why Israel?” I answered. “Because you taught me to love Israel. You taught me to love Jews

By Samuel Goldsmith

The Current
Joe Biden's policies, positions, and persona — and how his track record and policies on Israel are still relevant four decades later

By Binyamin Rose

Profiles
Rav Yaakov Meir Shechter is no stranger to pain and challenges, but life’s difficulties have never dampened his primal, internal joy

By Yisroel Besser

Family First Feature
What makes a person “invisible” to others, and how can you move out of the shadow of invisibility and learn to shine?

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

A Gift Passed Along
They know it’s the prelude to a busy 24 hours that begins with water

By Baruch Ya'ari