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Calligraphy: Succos 5786
I have lost my home already, have lost my country, and now I must give up my name, too?

By Bashie Lisker

Calligraphy: Succos 5786
What journeys did you have to take, to say, “This is who I am, this is what I love to do, and I don’t care who is watching?”

By Ariella Schiller

Calligraphy: Succos 5786
Leah stood there with empty arms. As usual, everyone else seemed to get what they wanted

By Esther Kurtz

Calligraphy: Succos 5786
“You listen to me, boys,” she said fiercely. “I’m coming back for you. This is only for now. Soon you’re coming home”

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Calligraphy: Succos 5786
That’s what I liked about Yidel. He wasn’t playing pretend. He didn’t butter up to me. He didn’t look at me like I was some figure on an ivory tower

By Esty Heller

Calligraphy: Succos 5786
Menashe shut his eyes for a moment and waited. Then — “Not a blizzard’s chance on Venus, Rabbi!”

By Shmuel Botnick

Calligraphy: Succos 5786
“You don’t have to do it, mammele. It’s okay, the sponsors understand, it’s all tzedakah. Not an actual competition”

By Rochel Samet

Calligraphy: Succos 5786
As if Elisheva knows. She doesn’t even know that Dovi exists, that I had another baby after… after

By Rivka Streicher

Magazine Feature
Rising voice Josh Hammer unearths the religious treasure in his own backyard

By Eli Steinberg

Magazine Feature
Yechiel Feifer packages every suit, shirt, or hat with a slice of Lakewood life

By Yosef Herz

Family First Feature
Wedding pros who′ve seen it all

By Penina Steinbruch

Magazine Feature
Wood, stone, or gold, every aron kodesh has its story

By Yosef Herz

Family First Feature
Five stories of knowing the time had come

By Family First Contributors

In Sights
He looked up at me and said, “A bas Yisrael is in pain and I should not cry for her?”

By Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg