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
A Promise Kept
My companions — along with the bag I was counting on to keep us alive — vanished in the chaos
A Gift Passed Along
“Thank You, Hashem, thank You, Hashem, thank You, Hashem for making beautiful bugs”
A Gift Passed Along
I had changed my name, changed my place, and rediscovered my true self
DMCs
I knew that one day I would just have to explode. Which I did, on the shabbaton
10 Questions
Shimon Fleischman is the co-owner of Mr. Can Cleaning in Monsey, New York
