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Street Smarts
Love of the land has been infused in Shuki’s blood since birth; he’s the right man for our challenge

By Ariella Schiller

Street Smarts
“‘What are you doing in Tel Aviv with no money?’ I asked him. I have strong intuition, so I knew this fellow needed a little hadrachah, not just a ride

By Rachel Ginsberg

Street Smarts
My driver thought for a minute, then pulled out his phone and called a boy from Los Angeles and announced that he had a girl for him

By Sandy Eller

Street Smarts
“Do your students speak to you about yahadut, about Judaism? Do they discuss their questions and doubts?”

By Rabbi Akiva Fox

Street Smarts
My wife and I got into the taxi expecting a trip across the holy city, but instead we got a trip through a seminal moment of Jewish history

By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Street Smarts
“Do you know whose briefcase this is?!” he asked the driver. “Rabbi Hershel Schachter is the Baba Sali of American Ashkenazim!”

By Sandy Eller

Street Smarts
I marveled at the hashgachah that had brought this driver back to Tel Aviv that day, and had brought me to his taxi

By Faigy Gold

Street Smarts
The driver told me that he eventually discovered that the wall was the Kotel, and he learned what it was and what it represented

By Margie Pensak

Outside Chance
Behaving for Yehudis is failing. It was giving up too much of what makes me, well, me

By Esther Kurtz

Jr. Feature
The prisoners bore the brunt of the guards’ hunger and anger. Soon the prisoners resorted to eating anything that moved

By Sivi Sekula

Family Reflections
Out of our homes, we take a good look inside us and discover what we’re really yearning for

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Slices of Life
At first, I pitied his abnormal childhood. I couldn’t help comparing his memories to my own

By Rachael Lavon

I'm Stuck
Real, authentic avodas Hashem is excruciatingly private. At the end of the day you stand before Hashem alone

By Faigy Peritzman

Cut ‘n Paste
But, you know, I don’t want to “skip Succos” anymore

By Ahava Ehrenpreis