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A Provocative Exchange
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Having Fun?
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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What Counts?
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Runners
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Demography, Not Democracy
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Heaven-Sent: Pesach Theme 5783
Heaven-Sent  
This Yom Tov, when Eliyahu HaNavi visits every household, we share a collection of first-person encounters, tales of miraculous intervention by a mysterious figure
Rachel Bachrach
Theme Section: Time Will Tell
Hidden Treasure
The clock is a constant in a shifting world. Six women share time-related tales
Roizy Baum
Theme Section: Time Will Tell
By the Clock
The clock is a constant in a shifting world. Six women share time-related tales
Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz
Tech Talk
Tech Talk: Busy, Busy, Busy
The demands on the modern-day religious woman pull her in 30 different directions at all times. We move on to the next task without finishing the first
Aliza Feder
Tech Talk
Tech Talk: Introduction
I researched until I felt like I had an accurate grasp of the studies and concerns. And I came to the conclusion that tackling this topic directly is important — and impossible.
Aliza Feder
Staff Room
How We Cholent
A dish that encapsulates generations of keeping Shabbos and following our Sages. And yet, no two cholents are the same
Mishpacha Staff
Staff Room
What will you be serving all day Erev Yom Kippur?
I always make a big brunch seudah in the morning — two big shakshukas, tons of fresh bread, and lots of fresh, cold grapes and watermelon to help everyone start to hydrate.
Family Table Contributors
Between Brothers
Trio of Rebbes 
The Lev Simcha era could be called a period of consolidation
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
Between Brothers
In Different Worlds
The story of the oldest and youngest children of the Netziv, Rav Chaim Berlin and Rav Meir (Berlin) Bar-Ilan
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
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An Insistent Knock

We have not been abandoned. He is listening for our tap at His door

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Heavy Musings On the Light Rail Train

Perhaps we all need a reminder, in the midst of haggling and dealing, that we are living not in an ordinary land

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Sadness and Gladness

The human soul requires regular contact with the Creator, just as human lungs require air

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The Strange Case of the Missing Money

“You’re not a thief,” I said, “but you definitely have a faulty memory” 

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Champions and Also-rans

All of life, not only sports, is a matter of inches

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The Perils of Sloganeering

So much for shibboleths like “democracy” and “voice of the people”

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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