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More Than Tzedakah

Aryeh Melinek and Eli Katz

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In Appreciation of Camp Counselors

Yosef Wartelsky

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Do We Realize What They’re Hearing?

Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber

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Foil Pans and the Secret of Simchah

Shmuel Botnick

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No More Waiting Lists

Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald

Front Row Seat

Notes from the Front Row Seat

“A groisse shkoyach. mamush, a groise mitzvah hot ir gehat”

C.S. Teitelbaum

Front Row Seat

Make Room for Another

Whenever Rabbi Whittow had to buy a new car, the Rosh Yeshivah told him to weigh only two considerations

C.S. Teitelbaum

It Happened at Midnight: Pesach Theme 5783

And It Happened at Midnight

While the world dreams and the stars twinkle, the Creator neither slumbers nor sleeps. Ten stories of midnight miracles, epiphanies, and revelations

Family First Contributors

Calligraphy: Succos 5784

I reminded myself that I had no reason to worry. Maybe things would happen at the last minute, but my mother would help me pull this off, I knew I could rely on her

Esty Heller

Calligraphy: Succos 5784

Honestly, I can’t keep track of Dalia’s wardrobe, even though she’s forever posting pictures of her new purchases on our family chat

Rochel Samet

Street Smarts

Driver’s View

In the taxi world, drivers are divided as to whether a “real” nahag uses Waze. For these veterans who know the city’s every highway and byway, the consensus is clear: real drivers don’t rely on it

Yaacov Lipszyc

Street Smarts

Pathways of Peace

Love of the land has been infused in Shuki’s blood since birth; he’s the right man for our challenge

Ariella Schiller

Pendulum: Chanukah 5786

With the passage of time, we clearly see how destructive wisdom becomes when not fenced in by moral constraints

Rabbi Berel Wein

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Calming the Sea

The need for medical shidduchim to be orchestrated by knowledgeable and experienced shadchanim

By Rabbi Meir Levi

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The Hazards of AI for Young People

We can offer something better to our children than a pretend world with pretend love

By Dr. Michael Milgraum

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How the Grinch Stole Simchas Torah

Simchas Torah — true, actual, authentic celebration of the Torah — is not as easy as it sounds

By Shmuel Botnick

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Meeting Extreme Trauma with Extreme Love

As a physician, I offer my prescription for 5785. What’s curing trauma in Israel can cure across the Jewish world

By Moshe Kaplan MD

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A Therapist’s Guide to Practical Teshuvah

We’ll need to ask ourselves a few questions. The first is, “What exactly are we doing wrong?”

By Yeshaya Kraus LCSW

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Don’t Think You Haven’t Grown

There is nothing sweeter than to reveal one’s personal spiritual greatness that has been dormant for far too long

By Rabbi Boruch Leff