Election 2024
The story of the Jewish vote in 2024 has attracted attention from the highest levels of the Republican Party
By Maury Litwack
Election 2024
As Democrats descend into infighting, will the party wake up to the fact that its leftward lurch is toxic?
By Gedalia Guttentag
The Beat
Who planned and coordinated the attacks on Israeli soccer fans?
By Y. Davis
Election 2024
Even a wiser and more seasoned Donald Trump will find governing to be just as challenging, if not more so, the second time around
By Binyamin Rose
Magazine Feature
Yaakov Hillel’s life and death became a channel for parents and children to heal
By Gedalia Guttentag and Shlomi Gil
To Be Honest
Has our Botox generation lost the art of aging gracefully?
By Kayla Markowitz
Family First Feature
When the Tango never took off: A struggling young couple learns how to turn around a floundering relationship
By Ariella Schiller and Jacob Ganz LMHC
Family Tempo
Three generations after the Holocaust, my family still hadn’t healed
By Chaya Liba Aarons
War Diaries
We may be crazy for living here—but we’re not wrong
By Yonah Levin Chatzinoff
Magazine Feature
The passing of Rabbi Moshe Blaustein leaves a generation without their rebbi
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Contributors

Barbara Bensoussan is the quintessential Jewish dropout who never finished her Ph.D. but went on to teach English and Introductory Psychology at the University of Michigan.  She worked as a social worker for OHEL, an ESL teacher, and various other stints before easing into full time writing.  Her 20-year-plus career followed the growth of frum publishing, and she wrote articles for many Jewish publications before settling in at Mishpacha.  Barbara is the author of the young adult novel A New Song (Targum), the food memoir The Well-Spiced Life (Israel Bookshop), and the co-author of Converted Masters, an art book; she has also authored private memoirs and taught writing workshops.  All of this, of course, gets accomplished in the margins of Barbara’s day job as a wife, mother and grandmother.

Gedalia Guttentag is Mishpacha’s news and features editor. He studied for more than a decade in the Mir yeshiva, and is active in Jewish education.

Sara Eisemann, LMSW, ACSW, is a clinical therapist who resides in Oak Park, Mi.  She received her Master’s in Social Work at Wayne State University over 30 years ago. Sara practiced individual, group and marital therapy at Jewish Family Service of Detroit where she developed a passion for human dignity  as a member of Windows, the domestic violence prevent program at JFS. She then went on to private practice at the Birmingham-Maple Clinic.

Sara has always had a strong interest in women’s issues. She is a trained Core Mentor as well as a certified dating coach. Sara is a lecturer on topics of Torah, authenticity and relationships, as well as the author of MatchQuest, a dating advice column in Mishpacha magazine. She is a proud wife, mother, grandmother and community member and is a passionate advocate of living an authentic, connected life.