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The Seat

Rifky Lebel

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Snow Day

Esther Adler

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Bitter and Sweet

Ariella Schiller

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Fridge on My Toe

Simmy Mandel

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Open Your Fist

Yael Zoldan

The Conversation Continues

In Defense of Seminary: The Conversation Continues, Part II

The debate about the seminary year continues to draw passionate feedback from our readers

The Conversation Continues

The Conversation Continues: The Shivah, Issue 981

“I, too, have felt jealous of those who have truly lost a parent”

Family First Readers

Under 18 Minutes

Safe and Sound

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

Nick-of-Time Newborn

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

Managing the Central Park Zoh

NYC’s next mayor is an anti-Israel socialist radical. What next?

Yitzchok Landa

Cross Current

Shaking The Trees in the Big Apple

A sample of initial reactions the morning after, including some revealing tidbits from the Arab media

Binyamin Rose

In the Numbers

Resolved

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

Two Miracles

“He said you will definitely have two children, maybe even three.”

Rabbi Akiva Fox

Communities

Scranton Guys for Life

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