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Teen Feature
Fast-forward a decade or two. Finding a long-sleeve T-shirt is no longer a treasure hunt. Our local stores are bursting with options

By Sarah Massry

A Healthier You
Fever isn’t a sickness, like strep throat or an ear infection. A raised body temperature is only a symptom

By Chaya Rosen

DMCs
It did help that it had a name, I suppose, so we knew what we were up against. But I still felt pretty miserable

By Devorah Grant

Take 2
We need to stretch ourselves to do chesed. But chesed must remain pleasant for us

By Mindy Rosenthal M.S., BCBA/LBA

Teen Fiction
Even worse was the fact that I knew she was right about my friends. They were changing — not for the better

By Malky Cope

Teen Diary Serial
Since I had no sisters or brothers close in age, there wasn’t much for me to do. I kept myself occupied by frying French fries

By Chaya Basra

FYI
I can’t think of one “pro” of having insomnia. We literally cannot get out of bed in the morning

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

Normal
What if they turn up earlier, while she and Shoshana are sitting there already?

By Rochel Samet

tastes like shabbos
She never involved herself in how much other people kept or followed — she loved and accepted them all the same, with no judgment

By Sarah Faygie Berkowitz

Jr. Feature
What happens before the matzah bakery, before the water and flour and 18 minutes

By Chaya Rosen

Parshah
Leaving Mitzrayim, then, was essentially about leaving the prison of materialism for spirituality

By Faigy Peritzman

Text Messages
Each son must be viewed as his own entity, not compared with his brothers, or anyone else’s son either

By Eytan Kobre

In the Nick of Time: Jr. Pesach Supplement 5782
Dovid shook his head. “It’s not ready. We have to perfect the hermetic seal that attaches the bag to the mouth of the bread eater”

By Penina Steinbruch

Halachah
I am not aware of any sources who say that naming a baby after a deceased relative elevates his neshamah

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt