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Marks That Matter
Naomi Blau
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Zeidy’s Maoz Tzur
Lea Pavel
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Land of Dreams (and Bureaucratic Nightmares)
Rochel Samet
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Recalibrating
Hadassah Steinman
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It All Ended with a Doormat
Esty Heller
Home at Last
Home Run
These are the survivors, the last 20 living hostages who spent 738 days in the unimaginable conditions of Hamas captivity yet never stopped hoping, yearning, and believing
Achiya Beitan
Home at Last
5 Takeaways After 2 Years of War
In war, impatience is not a virtue
Binyamin Rose
Dear Readers
An Honest Discussion
I'm already imagining the letters we'll get in response to this week's cover story
Bassi Gruen
TLC Talks
"My Son's Rebbi Is Too Serious"
“Many types of mechanchim can be successful teachers and reach your child”
Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield and Rabbi Ari Schonfeld
TLC Talks
"My Husband Drinks and Vapes Regularly. Is It Inevitable That My Children Will?"
This question has as much to do with Purim as it does with shalom bayis
Rabbi Yerachmiel Garfield and Rabbi Ari Schonfeld
Stranger in a Strange Land
Finally, Home
“What about your second Pesach Seder? I usually have American bochurim. Come to me”
Shoshana Gross
Stranger in a Strange Land
Shift Down South 
“I can’t imagine what it would have been like to raise our children in any other city”
Russy Tendler
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
And that is what the Hellers did. Short story long, they built a house Mrs. Heller was sweeping. She liked when things were neat. Duh, who doesn’t like it when things are neat? But when you’re living in an apartment where too many little people share the same very small space, you can like when
Bracha Stein and Chani Judowitz
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At the grocery, she’ll very possibly meet her friend, whom she’ll compliment on her new wig. Oh, wig! Her sheitel appointment!

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