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Knowing where we come from gives us purpose and passion as we find our way forward
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By the time I had matured enough to pose the right questions, dementia had decayed his towering intellect and muted his deep, rich voice
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Now, in hindsight, I wonder about it. A shul that had a rebbetzin, and no official rav? But back then it seemed natural
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If you could ask a single special ancestor of yours to address one question that you face, who would you ask and which life experience would you tap?
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They’ve forged their paths and molded a chain that connects them to children and grandchildren who keep paying it forward. As bearers of family legacies who illuminate the journey ...
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Strip away the where-what-when-how of our lives, and you’ll often find that behind the trappings of our modern-day routines lies an ancestor whose life mission informs our own
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Knowing where we come from gives us purpose and passion as we find our way forward
Double Take
"They’re these four girls who grew up together, and I’m the only sister-in-law, the only one who comes from a different house"
Calligraphy
Yerachmiel’s forehead creases as he thinks. “Is there a mitzvah in the Torah to be a baal korei? To write a sefer Torah, yes. But to learn how to lein? I don’t recall”
Calligraphy
Uncle Yidel was dancing in the middle with two rabbanim, but he lit up when he saw Shmuly. Of course he did — the orphaned nephew, the perfect prop for his simchah, along with the ...
Communities
As I sit with a group of men representing four decades of the yeshivah, they all have one thing in common: Scranton guy. How did the yeshivah create that glue?
