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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

Guestlines
We need to make conscious decisions, and take realistically small, but very consistent, steps

By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky

A Gift Passed Along
A tangible link between lofty generations engaged in the same enduring dance between Heaven and earth

By Rabbi Mattis Goldberg

A Gift Passed Along
He was my principal; he was also my ally and my cheerleader and one of the only people who took an odd little girl, dreamy but fierce, and tended to her

By Leah Gebber

The Moment
Closed in by corona, Rav Aharon Teitelbaum of Satmar still leads his flock

By Aryeh Ehrlich and Yisrael Feller

A Gift Passed Along
I found out that fiction can transport, uplift, and connect you to something bigger then yourself

By Rachael Lavon

Why I Do What I Do
“Come and join us!” he shouted. “We need you. Help us bring these remains to a Jewish burial!”

By Eliezer Shulman