Mishpacha Magazine

The Opposite of the Wrong Thing

While my parents actually got divorced over two decades into their marriage, the process leading up to it began long be ...

I wasn’t fat, I just had a good appetite, and needed fuel to keep me going both in the beis medrash and on the ...

I remember my first panic attack as if it happened yesterday. In truth, it happened 38 years ago, when I was 20 a ...

My Great-Grandfather Elyakim fought to hold onto his Yiddishkeit, but didn’t see Yiddishe nachas from his descendants. In his ...

Doctors aren’t prophets. They have permission to heal, but not to make predictions. But only several years later did I ...

“My dad told me before he died that I have to marry a Jewish girl. Is it possible for you to become Jewish?”

A few months before I was due to give birth, my eight-year-old daughter, Shulamis, turned to me and asked, “Mommy, what ...

I realized, much to my dismay, that I had not enjoyed one moment with Yedidya. Was this the same person I had gon ...

When you were around, Aryeh, I didn’t need company. I enjoyed having the kids over, and being invited out, and hosting ...

I couldn’t believe it — the boat was sinking! “Everybody out of the boat!” I commanded. “We’re going to have to swim ...

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