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His Majesty Still Stands Tall

Rabbi Gedalia Schorr

The Moment

Mishpacha Staff

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All of Our Children

Rabbi Shimon Russell

Magazine Feature

Mexican Revolution

Yochonon Donn

The Moment

Mishpacha Staff

Chair

Expert Eye

Upholstery Check

How to choose fabrics for your home

Zisi Naimark

Plant by a window

Family Living

Houseplants for Beginners

Keeping houseplants is not a talent but a skill that can be learned

Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

A Better You

A Better You

Water On a Rock

There’s a powerful chinuch message in the story of Rabi Akiva

Family First Contributors

Family First Feature

I was engaged when I discovered that I was a carrier of the BRCA gene

Erin Stiebel

Halachah

Keep, toss, save, sell: A Pesach cleaning primer

Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

Magazine Feature

Not Giving Up on Uman

Can thousands of Breslovers fuse spirituality with safety in the heart of Ukraine?

Ben Horodenker

Family First Feature

Unleash Your Inner Artist

Here are step-by-step instructions to bring paint night to your home

Sarah Esral

Game On!

Long Drives, Late Nights, Lots of Laughs

You can pull out an old game from the basement — but why not play one of these creative, curated games for even more fun?

Chanie Nayman

For the Record

Signed in Knyszyn, Sealed in Eternity

"A forgotten postcard from 1935 Knyszyn helped shape the future of Torah in America"

Dovid Safier and Yehuda Geberer

For the Record

The Long Gray Line Ends in Israel

An unexpected surprise awaits the casual visitor: the Jewish grave of the only officer in the entire cemetery who died fighting under another nation’s flag

Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Incredible Lab

Make your own tornado tube with Yochanan Ghoori!

Watch Yochanan Ghoori's homemade tornado!

Yochanan Ghoori

Incredible Lab

Make Your Own Tornado Tube!

Use colored Chanukah oil and some spinning power to create your own tornado vortex

Yochanan Ghoori

Fundamentals

Flashback: Fundamentals, Issue 760

On Succos, we're here because we want to be

Miriam Kosman

Flashback

Flashback: Lifetakes — Chasing Clarity, Issue 759

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Toby Schorr

Sefiras Ha'Omer

Fundamentals

A Tale of Two Voices

On Pesach, Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim. During Sefiras Ha’omer, we take Mitzrayim out of us

Miriam Kosman

Parshah

Parshas Emor, 5785

Counting of the Omer mustn’t only be quantitatively complete, but also qualitatively complete

Faigy Peritzman

Padlocks

Halachah

When is it okay to tell and when is it not?

Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

LifeLines

New Brother, Old Brother

The brother we knew was never coming back

C. Saphir

The Current

Firewall under fire

As Israeli-made offensive cyber-tech from the NSO Group is revealed to have targeted world leaders, will Israel’s own edge be blunted by foreign-sales restrictions?

Eliezer Shulman

A Few Minutes With

A Few Minutes with Shlomo Toaff, Head of the Iron Dome Directorate

"Iron Dome was something that people thought was impossible"

Gedalia Guttentag

The Day After

Adjusting to The Day After: Chinuch

An expert panel featuring Rabbi Menachem Karmel, Rabbi Zvi Bender and Rabbi Ari Schonfeld, moderated by Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan WATCH / LISTEN TO THE PANEL HERE

Mishpacha Contributors

The Day After

Adjusting to The Day After: Children's Tech

An expert panel featuring Rabbi David Ozeri, Dr. Eli Shapiro, and Mrs. Aliza Feder, moderated by Mr. Alex Paskie WATCH / LISTEN TO THE PANEL HERE

Mishpacha Contributors

Sefiras Ha'Omer

Fundamentals

A Tale of Two Voices

On Pesach, Hashem took us out of Mitzrayim. During Sefiras Ha’omer, we take Mitzrayim out of us

Miriam Kosman

A Better You

A Better You

Water On a Rock

There’s a powerful chinuch message in the story of Rabi Akiva

Family First Contributors

Fiction

The Anti-MILC Society

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Gila Arnold

Fiction

Tamar's life felt all wrong. Did the Sorting Sheitel make a mistake?

Gila Arnold

The Current

Unintended Targets

"Trump’s tariff wars hit e-commerce hard — and sellers are scrambling to adapt"

Rafael Hoffman

Software Savvy

Software Savvy: Part 25

Empower your business with smart software choices

Yossi Brieger with Esther Kutz

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Rivky Kleiman

Perfect Purim Meat

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Rivky Kleiman

Hands on Steering Wheel

Great Reads: Second Guessing

Carpool Conundrum

It's just a carpool. Do we need to be married to it?

Ariella Schiller

Musings

Forever Special Children

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Brochie Wolfson

Connections

Connections

Performance Pressure

How can I stop worrying I’m going to fail at my new job?

Sarah Chana Radcliffe M. Ed. C. Psych.

A Better You

A Better You

Water On a Rock

There’s a powerful chinuch message in the story of Rabi Akiva

Family First Contributors

Club Jr.

Club Jr. Episode 15: Season Finale!

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Jr. Contributors

Club Jr.

Club Jr. Special! A Trip to Beit Shemesh

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Jr. Contributors

TLC Talks

How can I, as a parent, best advocate for my son's therapy?

"Parents who hope to positively impact their children’s chinuch must build a strong foundation and collaborative relationship with the mechanchim"

Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield and Rabbi Ari Schonfeld

Counter Point

All Our Children: The conversation continues

"When parents stop sacrificing their children upon the altars of self-image, we will have students who feel valued by, and love for, the systems they are in"

Mishpacha Readers

Sit Down Comedy and Asher Yatzar | Take 2 with Yossi Hecht

How can you keep smiling when tragedy strikes… twice?

Yisroel Besser

Feature Videos

Soft Yesses and Blocked Numbers | Take Rabbi Tzadok Katz, Rabbi Meir Levi & Rabbi Shlomo Lewenstein

When your work puts you inside some of the most sensitive situations in our community, how can you keep from burning out?

Yisroel Besser

The Current

Unintended Targets

"Trump’s tariff wars hit e-commerce hard — and sellers are scrambling to adapt"

Rafael Hoffman

Hostage Poster

News Feature

Rep. Josh Gottheimer's battle to bring Idan Alexander Back

Yitzchok Landa

Magazine Feature

Turkish Trail Mix

Mile by mile, tweet by tweet, Rabbi Mendy Chitrik traipses through Turkey on the ultimate back-to-roots Jewish journey

Yochonon Donn

On Site

The Hills Are Alive

Sometimes to have a great trip, all you need is a Tanach

Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz

On Site

WATCH: Live in Caesarea

Watch: Follow Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz on a virtual tour around the sites at Caesarea!

Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz

Feature Videos

WATCH: On Site Live in Tzippori!

Follow Rabbi Schwartz around Tzipori and hear the amazing stories from the time of the mishna and gemara

Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz

Reel Chronicles

Lipa's Super Seder Takeover

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Money Talks

Watch! Money Talks with Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

bonfire

Deal or No Deal

Are you a Lag B’omer person?

"It’s a very powerful day and people are zocheh to tremendous nissim if they channel it"

Inbox

Family First Inbox

"I always enjoy reading Sarah Chana Radcliffe’s columns. This time though, I was really taken aback"

Family First Readers

Web Exclusive

Echoes From Lublin

Close to a century later, we're still singing the songs of a visionary scholar, builder, and leader.

EndNote

Still Coming Out of Mitzrayim

"Whenever Pharaoh knocks at my door, I sing the song to remind myself that I’ve got a little bit of Moses in me, too”

Riki Goldstein

A Different Way

When there’s “another way,” no matter how hard — Rav Mattisyahu Salomon showed us that’s the road to take

Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg

Family First Feature

In My Parents Home

Rav Chaim Ozer calmly said, “Go to America, Reb Avrohom, and ratevet, save as many people as you can”

Mina Englander

Feature Videos

Sanhedrin Stopovers: Rabi Yehuda ben Bava's Kever

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz

Feature Videos

Sanhedrin Stopovers: Shefaram Synagogue

Rav Pam politely and firmly insisted that they pull over to tend to the baby’s needs Rabbi Naftali Miller, National Director of Development for Agudath Israel, is also a founder of Chasdei Lev, charged with overseeing this chesed superpower. The logistics are intricate and complex, and pre-Yom Tov planning meetings for a massive food

Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz

Feature Videos

WATCH! Stardust in Seagate

The next chapter of Yossi Green's musical journey!

Yisroel Besser

Feature Videos

Take 2 with Rabbi YY Jacobson

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