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Ariella Schiller
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Rivka Streicher and Rochel Samet
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Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz
Every Moment Counts: Chanukah Theme 5783
As we prepare our wicks and count our candles, each day adding another level of light, do those numbers hold another special meaning for you? 
Mishpacha Contributors
Step It Up
We like to think our homes are spick-and-span. Well, hygienic at least. but how clean are our homes really? For as long as there have been houses (and tents?), there have been people trying to keep them clean. In ancient Greece, people cleaned the floors with sand and vinegar, while the ancient Romans used brooms
Mindel Kassorla
Step It Up
When you focus on the now, the future becomes possible
Mindel Kassorla
Shul of My Youth
Rabbi Paysach Krohn remembers the shul of his youth
Baila Rosenbaum
Shul of My Youth
For some reason my father chose to become a member at Dukes Place, and that was our shul
Riki Goldstein
Editor's Letter
Maybe the ultimate strength of Stories is their unique ability to wrangle with the soul
Rachael Lavon
Editor's Letter
You struggle and toil and build, and then it all comes down, but perhaps that’s the point. Perhaps the glory is in the effort, not the result
Yisroel Besser
A Summer Well Spent
"To see how 'I' and 'me' are just ways to say ‘us' and 'we'; to expand yourself to include others"
Yosef Herz
A Summer Well Spent
"It was all part of being there, showing the unaffiliated that bnei Torah can be fun, normal, and serious about Yiddishkeit at the same time"
Yosef Herz
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