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Jacob L. Freedman MD

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Our son just couldn’t seem to succeed in school. And the culprit was something we’d never expected

Shoshana Gross

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I had a new baby — and no white blood cells. No one knew what was going on

Faigy Peritzman

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I’m continuously astonished by how much less of a big deal this switch has been than I thought it would be

Aliza Feder

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“Hopefully you’ll make a better doctor than a chess player" he told me Jonas was a young man who was stuck at the state psychiatric hospital, and I was his medical student. Jonas was an only child who had grown up in a comfortable suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts, where mom and dad lavished chess

Boaz Bachrach

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

Rabbi Akiva Fox

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Bored? Uninspired? Itching for change? It’s never too late to recalibrate

Shira Werblowsky

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Reaching the Clouds

For chassidic techie Chaim Landau, uploading chareidi tech power is win-win

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I think my exact reaction was, “Um… but I know absolutely nothing about making a movie!”

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