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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

Perspective
Before talking numbers, we need to ask a more basic question: Why are we sending our daughters to seminary at all?

By Avraham Levinson

LifeTakes

By Leora Rosenberg

Guestlines
Despite our vows of “never again,” we were indeed once again caught by surprise. And once again, we thought we had learned our lesson
Words Unspoken
I don’t know how to tell you. But I wish you understood what I’m going through

By Anonymous

Magazine Feature
Is our community drinking its way to disaster?

By Sarah Massry

Cut ‘n Paste
I see the entire Jewish People standing outside the Makom Hamikdash, knocking on the door, “Abba, let us in!”

By Penina Steinbruch