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Rifky Lebel
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Ariella Schiller
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Simmy Mandel
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Yael Zoldan
The Conversation Continues
The debate about the seminary year continues to draw passionate feedback from our readers
The Conversation Continues
“I, too, have felt jealous of those who have truly lost a parent”
Family First Readers
Under 18 Minutes
A single moment can make all the difference between chometz and matzah, between success and failure. They raced the clock — and beat it!
Shoshana Neumann
Under 18 Minutes
 A single moment can make all the difference between chometz and matzah, between success and failure. They raced the clock — and beat it!
Beth Perkel
Cross Current
NYC’s next mayor is an anti-Israel socialist radical. What next?
Yitzchok Landa
Cross Current
A sample of initial reactions the morning after, including some revealing tidbits from the Arab media
Binyamin Rose
In the Numbers
We leave it all behind in the end Open your fist. You can’t take it with you. Let go and let go and let go. Whatever you think you own, you don’t. Possession is an illusion, truth is transcendent. The more you want, the less you have. It takes so much faith to just let
Boaz Bachrach
In the Numbers
“He said you will definitely have two children, maybe even three.”
Rabbi Akiva Fox
Communities
As I sit with a group of men representing four decades of the yeshivah, they all have one thing in common: Scranton guy. How did the yeshivah create that glue?
Eytan Kobre
Communities
A historic dedication heralds new hope for Budapest’s Jews
Gershon Burstyn
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If you can’t distract ’em, join ’em

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The women’s section was full… of men

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