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Outlook
Teachers and professors quickly learn that it is not worth the effort to critique students. As a consequence, grades are ...

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Profiles
Even as materialism and technology erode the spirit, legendary Rabbi Noah Weinberg’s first talmid, Rabbi Yisroel Blumenfeld, con ...

By Eytan Kobre

Mesorah Quest
It was the opportunity of my dreams: a week on a sailboat bobbing up and down on the ocean waves, not a soul i ...

By Ari Greenspan

Communities
Smaller Jewish communities across the country are looking to grow numbers by enticing people away from big cities. Community recruiters make it happen

By Faygie Levy-Holt

Jewish Geography
Two political conventions, in two consecutive weeks, nominating two candidates who couldn’t possibly be farther apart in their ...

By Binyamin Rose

 
He proudly announced, “This is my father!”,Visiting Day ,He then turned me around to face his counselors and proudly annou ...

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

Jewish Geography
The attempted coup in Turkey lasted less than 12 hours, but its failure will have repercussions for months to come

By Gershon Burstyn

Summer Job
Chaim delivers big news to Dovi Gelber

By Dov Haller

Guestlines
Before we act or speak, let’s take a minute to think how this “picture” would look in Heaven, and what the ramificat ...

By Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg

Text Messages
How would the Marcuses have felt about this trip? Might they have been uncomfortable about having some of what they lef ...

By Eytan Kobre

Personal Accounts
Some creative moms turn their homes into camp — and say that the experience is worth every ounce of energy.

By Julie Hauser and R.C. Steif and Riki Goldstein

Fiction
If Fraidy brushed off comments with vague rejoinders, well, there was a new Infiniti in the driveway and a full-time Ro ...

By Raizy Isaacs

LifeTakes
Was my child the only black-and-white thinker in the class who would be devastated when a gold-laden structure failed to ...

By Ilana Shafer

Fundamentals
How would you react?

By Rebbetzin Shira Smiles