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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

Jewish Geography
The fundraising project is really an expression of protest against how the extremely strict ethical standards of the IDF c ...

By Aharon Granot

Turning Tides
One thing I learned right away was that if this was to work — and I believed it could — then honesty was cruci ...

By Leah Gebber

Learning Curve
Aviva finds out that her parents are coming for Shabbos. Suri and Yael are surprised by the appearance of three graduat ...

By Gila Arnold

Family Reflections
Look past the meltdown at the hurting person behind it,

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Whispers
At the grand age of six, I already knew many important things. One: doctors like poking people. Two: parents don’t like ...

By Shira Hart

On Site
While the northern town of Akko is a social experiment by default, where Jews and Arabs live in mixed neighborhoods, it ...

By Chananel Shapiro