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Beltway Brief
Some call it transactional. Others call it effective. Either way, American hostages are coming home. And fast
By Jake Turx
A Few Minutes With
Whether Qatar will play a role in any negotiations between Washington and Tehran remains to be seen
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Magazine Feature
Relatives share what it’s like to have a husband and child in captivity — with no end in sight
By Yaacov Lipszyc
Magazine Feature
When Eli Moshe Zimbalist was killed in Gaza, one neighbor committed to ensure his legacy
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Family First Feature
When should a parent step in for teacher-student mismatches, and what’s the right way to do it?
By Elisheva Luger
Family Tempo
I often ask myself why I married him in the first place. It’s not a question with a simple answer
By Gabby Jacobs
The Moment
“I reached out to her as a rav, but by the time I hung up, I was a talmid of her emunah”
By Ariella Schiller
On Site
What happened to the Aleppo's historic Jewish sites, including the Great Synagogue of Aleppo?
By Yitzchok Landa
Tribute
Rabbi Mendel Belsky saw how all Jews shined on the inside, even if they’d been tarnished by life’s struggles
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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.