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Family First Feature
She was once a Catholic schoolgirl in France; now Ora Zyto’s a frum bio-engineer in Boston

By Barbara Bensoussan

Medical Mysteries
Even though this was my first birth and I was admittedly inexperienced, I felt something was seriously wrong

By Rachael Lavon

Family Diary
“I totally don’t do that, ever. I never even let the boy buy a drink for me”

By Shani Leiman

Family Tempo
Even as a child, I knew we didn’t have real grandparents

By Shoshana Lesser

Musings
The doorbell rings. No one rings the doorbell to our house unless they’re FedEx or UPS

By Ruchie Cohen

Windows
I did this crazy six-people-to-three-functioning-devices scramble in the spring. I thought we were finally heading back to normal

By Tzivia Meth

Rocking Horse
“Fortuna, do you still think that I am a princess who lives in a castle? This is all I have”

By Leah Gebber

Outside Chance
Chaim picked up his laffa, then put it down. He seemed to be thinking. “I don’t remember ever making a conscious choice in my life”

By Esther Kurtz

Tribute
Rav Shlomo Hoffman spent the better part of a century uncovering the layers of the neshamah and left his tools as a gift to the world

By Menachem Pines

D-Day for MAGA
How will next Tuesday’s result affect these treaties? What will become of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? For some predictions, we turned to two former Israeli ambassadors to Wa ...

By Omri Nahmias

For the Record
Answering the call was a young, ambitious scion of the Alter of Slabodka named Eliyahu Meir Finkel

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Encore
For a second, Shuey thought the boy was hurt, but when Shuey said, “Yeah, you,” Dovi’s face lit up and he stepped forward

By Dov Haller

Recipes
My mother used to make this when I was growing up. It’s a cross between a Sephardi salmon recipe and Ashkenazi gefilte fish.

By Naomi Nachman

EndNote
“Today, if I could sing for 200 people, I would be thrilled beyond words"

By Riki Goldstein