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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
The Dushinsky chassidus has come to be an integral part of the fabric of the Old Yishuv

By Rabbi Mattis Goldberg

Why I Do What I Do
We were there alone, a young couple in our twenties. How would we know how to comfort families in crisis?

By Barbara Bensoussan

A Gift Passed Along
I was at the Kosel one afternoon and saw this picture unfolding in such a natural way

By Moshe Wulliger

A Gift Passed Along
For the life of me, I could not fathom what was so distressing to Rabbi Friedman

By Mrs. Elana Moskowitz

Namesakes
"A surgeon does G-d’s work and a rabbi does G-d’s work, so I’m also your colleague!”

By C.S. Teitelbaum

Family Reflections
This year, Pesach is different from every other year. But we can handle it

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe