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Takes the Cake

Peshie Needleman

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A Quiet Shabbos

Penina Pinchasi

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Balancing Equations

Goldie Hirsch

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Four Minutes

Esther Adler

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Birthday Boy

Tali Edelstein

Home Sweet Home

Escape to Ever After

he stranger and Ta looked at each other. Both burst out laughing. The man opened his arms wide, got up, and threw them around Ta

Leeba Leichtman

Home Sweet Home

Special Diet

“Mindy needs special medicine to help her feel better, so she has to stay in the hospital overnight,” he explained to Eli

Rochel Samet

Words Unspoken

Dear Mitzvah Lady

Please know this: You wrecked my day

Anonymous

Words Unspoken

Dear Friends

I’m going through something, and it’s big

Anonymous

Unboxed

America, Step Back

There’s a direct line between what went on since the November elections, and the political violence that shook Washington, D.C. on January 6

Gedalia Guttentag

Unboxed

Humbled by a Mask

At the very moment when mankind is advanced enough to grapple with Artificial Intelligence, gene editing and quantum computing, we’re totally defenseless against a virus - except for a cloth over our face

Gedalia Guttentag

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Coffee Break with Dani Dayan

Dani Dayan is the departing consul general of Israel in New York

Omri Nahmias

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Coffee Break with Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone

Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone is senior advisor to US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman

Gershon Burstyn

Make It Work

So You've Always Loved… Movement

Meet five women who’ve found careers that keep them on their feet and in action

Miriam Milstein

Make It Work

So You’ve Always Loved… Science

Four women who got their dream career down to a science

Miriam Milstein

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Something New

When either my conscience or appetite was particularly insistent, I’d spend my lunch break with Oma

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Battle Scars

You feel her empathy and sadness, the curiosity and respect for your life experience and courage

By G. Weiser

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Ma Was Right

I promised myself that when I’m a mommy, I won’t do what my mommy did

By Lea Pavel

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For This I Have Prayed

By the end of the day, there were more kids on the sick list than off

By Leah Weisberg

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The Finally Moment

Basically, the worst possible moment for police to show up at your door

By Esty Heller

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Looking at the Light

The two-hour distance between his residence and his real home feel like a chasm that can’t be bridged

By Liba Mendelson

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