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Magazine Feature
When it comes to checking for bugs, we have to take it very, very seriously, and that includes having to check some of our favorite Yom Tov foods

By Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod

Magazine Feature
Here’s a guide to the interesting fruits that might wind up on your table this year

By Sivi Sekula

Story Time
“Yes, we already know you’re the best dancer around,” another person agreed as the crowd murmured their agreement. “We’re tired of trying to out-dance you”

By Yehuda Bromberg

Crisscross
Tears spring to my eyes. What kind of bar mitzvah will I have? I turn away, trying to hide my reaction to the judge’s words

By Tovy Mann

Teen Fiction
Walking home that’s all I could think about. I was so inspired! I, Sara Malka Fried, would not miss this opportunity

By Rachelli Weinstein

Bricks and Ladders
Mommy laughs and then puts her mug down. “So, tell me again, eight other girls really got your backpack just because Tamara complimented you on it?”

By Ariella Schiller

Normal Like Me
“He said more than that: He said that G-d is everything that happens to us and everything that will happen. He is the blood that flows in our veins”

By Ruti Kepler

Shared Space
Now she knew why she wasn’t feeling the peace that sleeping Sari and grateful Ariella and the sunny living room should have given her

By Dov Haller

Impressions
“Learn three masechtos, be’al peh,” the rosh yeshivah said. “Kiddushin, Gittin, Nedarim. Then you will have a bechinah. If you succeed, you’ll earn 20 litu and a new suit”
LifeLines
In those days, Jews were Jews, and I, the grandson of the Rosh Yeshivah, played ball with Bernie, the kid whose father worked on Shabbos

By C. Saphir

I dare me
I grab my phone to open Evernote, but I decide against that; a cheshbon hanefesh needs good, old-fashioned pen and paper: tangible and indelible

By Elisheva Appel