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LifeLines
In those days, Jews were Jews, and I, the grandson of the Rosh Yeshivah, played ball with Bernie, the kid whose father worked on Shabbos

By C. Saphir

Impressions
“Learn three masechtos, be’al peh,” the rosh yeshivah said. “Kiddushin, Gittin, Nedarim. Then you will have a bechinah. If you succeed, you’ll earn 20 litu and a new suit”
Shared Space
Now she knew why she wasn’t feeling the peace that sleeping Sari and grateful Ariella and the sunny living room should have given her

By Dov Haller

Normal Like Me
“He said more than that: He said that G-d is everything that happens to us and everything that will happen. He is the blood that flows in our veins”

By Ruti Kepler

Outlook
How can we maximize the potential of Rosh Hashanah?

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Text Messages
A move toward Him necessarily means a move away

By Eytan Kobre

Guestlines
What do the multiple books of life mean to us?

By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Magazine Feature
If you walk into a Pinsk-Karliner tish looking for the Rebbe, he’s the one sitting in the middle of the table among the chassidim, leaving rebbishe hanhagos at the door

By Aryeh Ehrlich

Magazine Feature
It’s something most of us can’t stop ourselves from doing — evaluating ourselves based on what others own or accomplish. How to finally get yourself out of this negative cycle

By Elisheva Appel

Magazine Feature
Three months after they married, Naomi Rivkah Most’s husband was diagnosed with cancer. For the next 11 years, the couple drew on their joy, hope, and emunah

By Leah Gebber

I dare me
I grab my phone to open Evernote, but I decide against that; a cheshbon hanefesh needs good, old-fashioned pen and paper: tangible and indelible

By Elisheva Appel