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Overheard: Issue 902

Mishpacha Staff

For the Record

The Holy Man of Holyoke

Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

The Moment

Happening in… Houston, Texas

Mishpacha Staff

The Moment

Ballot Box: Issue 902

Mishpacha Staff

For the Record

The Eternal Daf

Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Veiled Reference Podcast

Glikl Unveiled: Reading the Memoir through a Master's Lens (Feat. Dr. Elisheva Carlebach)

Glikl of Hameln is a familiar and beloved character to Jewish history enthusiasts. In this episode, we dive beneath the surface of Glikl’s words to deeply appreciate the forces at play for women of her era. In conversation with Professor Elisheva Carlebach. Dr. Carlebach is the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, at Columbia University.

BONUS MINIPOD: Shabtai Zvi, Birkas Kohanim, and the Path Away from the Kosel

Tzipora Weinberg

Veiled Reference Podcast

Who was Joanna of Burgos? (Feat. Yael Krumbein)

The Silent Strength of Joanna of Burgos Joanna is a name most people won’t recognize, but her story is one for the ages. This episode describes one woman’s faith under fire, in the aftermath of the 1391 massacres in Spain, and the ways women kept their faith throughout the years of the Spanish Inquisition. In conversation with Yael Krumbein. Yael teaches European History at Touro College’s Lander College for Women in New York City and Jewish history at Bais Yaakov Machon Ora High School in Passaic, NJ MINI-POD: The Rivash and the Chasid Yavetz on women's challenges and triumphs in Spain, 1391-1492

Tzipora Weinberg

Family First Editor's Letter

Flashback: Editor's Letter, Issue 788

Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.

Bassi Gruen

Family First Editor's Letter

Family First Editor's Letter: Issue 788

Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.

Bassi Gruen

Blueprint

No Two Tests Are the Same

A historic encounter between Rabbi Yolles and the founder of Daf Yomi, Rav Meir Shapiro Title: The Eternal Daf Location: Philadelphia Document: The Jewish Exponent Time: 1926 At first glance, the inscription on Rav Ephraim Eliezer HaKohein Yolles’s Har Hazeisim headstone seems standard, referring to his titles as “gaon av beis din of Philadelphia’’

Rabbi Yaakov Feitman

The Ring of Healing: Succos 5785

The Brother I Never Knew: Soul Sisters

So much more binds us than separates

Penina Steinbruch

The Ring of Healing: Succos 5785

The Little Teivah and the Foolish Shepherd

One year later, converging circles of heart and hope

I of the Storm

I of the Storm: Chapter 20

I pinched myself. Could it be that the entire Shafer crew is cooperating, smiling — and genuinely happy? Could it be that our family portrait is not a complete farce?

Ilana Shafer

I of the Storm

I of the Storm: Chapter 19

So I’m not a tzadeikes, I shot back to my ever-present faultfinder. I haven’t got bottomless reservoirs of patience. But I’m not so bad, either

Ilana Shafer

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