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Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
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Separate Situation
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
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A Time for Sadness
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
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Light House
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
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Never Alone
Rabbi Doniel Neustadt
The Gatekeeper's Daughter
The Gatekeeper's Daughter: Chapter 32
Vasara sucks in her breath. She swivels in her office chair and closes her eyes. Her trip to Riga belongs to another era, relegated to a dusty corner of her brain, the door shut firmly after it
Esther Teichtal
The Gatekeeper's Daughter
The Gatekeeper's Daughter: Chapter 31
She might always be that weird girl who has fallen from a distant star who doesn’t know half of the endless rules
Esther Teichtal
Kitchen Encounters
Thinking Outside the Pickle Jar
It turns out that pickles can be anything you like: sweet, spicy, crunchy, soft, simple, complex, or even part of dessert!
Helen Shere
Kitchen Encounters
Make Your Own Gravlax
It’s not as hard as you think it is
Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz
Kichels
Help Rochi Kichel find a Shidduch!
You may not be able to help Rochi but you can help real people
Bracha Stein and Chani Judowitz
Kichels
The Kichels’ Chometz Tracker
Yichud is forbidden min haTorah, and it applies to both married and single men and women Prepared for print by Faigy Peritzman   What is the halachic definition of yichud? The halachic definition of yichud is seclusion between a man and a woman, indoors or outdoors, with little or no chance of intrusion. This is forbidden
Bracha Stein and Chani Judowitz
Oneg Shabbos
Soldier of Fortune
Now that he was in the Czar’s army, he knew he’d take revenge and right the injustice done by none other than his own brother
Yeruchem Yitzchak Landesman
Oneg Shabbos
And Seal Us for Life
For the sake of saving a life, said Rav Chaim HaLevi of Brisk, we must try everything, even something that goes against logic, even on Yom Kippur
Yeruchem Yitzchak Landesman
Family Room Feature
To each their own
Mood boards to inspire your bathroom updates, from small to large, black to white — and all the colors in between
Family Room Contributors
Family Room Feature
Renovation Realness
Foundational concepts when considering a bathroom refresh
Yali Katz
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From the Other Side of the Mechitzah

Women (and men) do not recite v’zos haTorah unless they can see the open, unrolled klaf 

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

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Elul: An End and Beginning

As women don’t have the obligation of tefillah b’tzibbur, the only reason for you to go to shul is if you will daven better, with more kavanah

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

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Finders Keepers?

The halachos of lost and found

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

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Not Just Words

The prohibition of ona’as devarim, “A person shouldn’t aggrieve his fellow,” is violated when one verbally causes another Jew emotional pain or anguish

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

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More than Red and Blue

The Shulchan Aruch rules that meat may be eaten after milk during the same meal, without bentshing or even waiting any time in between

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

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A Matter of Interest

Is borrowing in your best interest?

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

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