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Envy

Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Odd Jews

Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Second Thoughts

The Old Woman and the Siddur

Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Second Thoughts

Fours and Eights: Random Musings

Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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A G-dly Conversation

Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Sunshine Season

Taking Root

In the beis medrash and on those nature hikes, who would have thought a talmid chacham was being cultivated?

Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber

5 to 9

Work/Life solutions with Moe Mernick

As we wrap up this column (for now), the team at Mishpacha felt that the best possible candidate for a final interview would be me

Moe Mernick

5 to 9

Work/Life Solutions with Yoni Palmer

"Writing a book when you’re depressed is one serious challenge. But I knew it had to be done, that it was something that could benefit the tzibbur"

Moe Mernick

Naming Myself

Choosing an Identity

Most of us are given our Jewish names at birth. But sometimes, we gain our name later in life. 3 accounts

Rikki Silver

Naming Myself

Mother Knows Best

Most of us are given our Jewish names at birth. But sometimes, we gain our name later in life. 3 accounts

Rochel Samet

Standing Ovation

Echoes of Mount Zion

Fifty years after Diaspora Yeshiva Band played the soundtrack for a generation of return

Dovid Nachman Golding

Screenshot

All You Can Ask

To master our unfamiliar lines in the script that’s unfolding

Shoshana Friedman

Jr. Fiction

Tale of Treeo: Chapter 3

Some call it “Orthodox,” but it simply means being a committed Jew My friend was teasing me: Do you think G-d is Orthodox? Of course, I replied. It’s only logical. Can you imagine G-d not keeping strictly kosher? Or keeping kosher at home, but not outside the home, as some Conservative Jews do? Or

Bashie Lisker