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Rivka Streicher
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C. Schon
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Shoshana Schwartz
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Ahava Ehrenpreis
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Riki Goldstein
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
Calligraphy: Pesach 5785
The walk to the entrance is long, long, long, one aisle that’s five times the size of the entire prison commissary
Rochel Samet
Calligraphy: Pesach 5785
Meir repressed a groan. Why didn’t girls know that guys didn’t take mussar seder seriously?
Esther Kurtz
Free Fall
Freefall took me 12 months — and 25 years — to write. Now that it’s over, while other old and new responsibilities bang at my door, I’ll ignore the knocking for a bit and share a short retrospective on life during Freefall
Miriam Stark Zakon
Free Fall
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
Miriam Stark Zakon
Rerouted: Pesach Theme 5783
Sometimes it’s the detours that remind us Who forms man’s footsteps and watches over His nation
Sarah Massry
Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
“Please come with me,” she begged. “It’ll be a one-time thing — and the trip won’t last more than 24 hours”
Sarah Pardes
Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
It wouldn’t be easy to both fast and care for my father the entire day. So, the zechus of the mitzvah fell on me
Sarah Pardes
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We will sit, not with parents or grandparents, but ourselves, like we do on a Tuesday evening for a lazy supper

By Rivka Streicher

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I walked through the doors of the hospital’s main entrance and headed straight for intensive care. A friend of mine was caring for an ill relative, and I’d come to spend some time with her. As I exited the elevator and entered that alternate universe known as the ICU, I noticed a flurry of activity around

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We can’t plan. Not what tomorrow may look like, not what next month may look like

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Is it even meant to return to normal — or is this supposed to be leading us somewhere else?

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Then came the phone call. “Rivkie, it’s Chana. I cannot believe what I just heard”

By Rivkie Mindelewitz

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When I remember the special moments of my youth, I panic. What memories will my children have?

By Esther Heller