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The Places We Call Home  
A celebration of the walls that surround, protect, and define us
Family First Contributors
The Places We Call Home  
Housing prices, mortgage rates, and inflation have skyrocketed. Yet many young couples are still buying homes. How are they doing it? And should they be?
Toby Berger
Fruits of Kindness
A bus ticket, a care package, a haircut — the items were small, the caring behind them enormous. A small seed sprouted and grew tall. Twenty readers share acts of giving
Family First Readers
Naming Myself
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
Most of us are given our Jewish names at birth. But sometimes, we gain our name later in life. 3 accounts
Rochel Samet
Screen Safer
“I want to help you, Mendy,” I said. “But this isn’t the best place for this conversation”
Bayla Hersher
Screen Safer
Without waiting for me to ask a single question, everything that led up to Chesky’s expulsion came tumbling out
Bayla Hersher
Worldview
Seventy-eight years after it first began, it’s the high noon of the America-Israel alliance
Gedalia Guttentag
Worldview
What does it say that Torah figures seem impervious to the immutable laws of human physics? 
Gedalia Guttentag
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Scientists say the world’s magnetic field is seriously off-kilter — and I believe them. Let’s hope that 5780 is the year the world rights itself

By Gershon Burstyn

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From the diplomatic angle — the peace plan of President Trump is expected to be presented soon, likely arousing deep divisions within Israeli society

By Eliezer Shulman

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Yet when the scales are balanced and the book of judgment closes on the year 5779, the Jewish People are thriving

By Binyamin Rose

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This year also brought more evidence — if any was needed — that European anti-Semitism is a continent-wide disease

By Gedalia Guttentag

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The US president wakes up to the fact that Bibi’s no longer a winner — and Trump doesn’t like losers

By Omri Nahmias

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A fateful year for New York, and its Jewish community

By Yochonon Donn