Family First Feature
Once, there were no custom sheitels, kosher cookbooks, and seminaries. These pioneers changed that
A Promise Kept
Sometime during that awful era, I began fiddling around on the piano
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
A Promise Kept
I can feel the strain through the thread. I am over effusive; she is cordial. Don’t touch me
A Promise Kept
Baba’s loving sentiments that the all-but-forgotten promise conveyed were dear to my heart
A Promise Kept
“What do you think?” Reb Laizor thundered. “Without mussar I would be like that too!”
A Promise Kept
We’d created a haven for them to unburden their hearts, and sent them away with the sweetness of home cooking
All I Ask
Yanky was silent. The world was spinning in circles. And what could he say? The Rebbe was right
Calligraphy
“Mommy’s fine. She’s turning ninety-two soon, she went through a lot in her life, She’s entitled to forget things every now and then”
Story Supplement
Zeidy looked thoughtfully at Malky and Eli. “You know, you two remind me of myself and Tanta Temi at your age”
Calligraphy
Around her the kids are screaming, but Dena can hear something else. The hiss of onions maybe, an angry hiss, like they’re charring
Point of View
"In every generation there is a Yetzias Mitzrayim matched to that generation’s particular situation"
Out of Step
Ma makes sense, she really does, but I just feel so heavy and gross, and I miss ballet so much, I completely lose myself
