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Parshah
Elul is knocking, will we open the door?

By Miriam Aflalo

Family Reflections
The fine line between punishment and discipline,

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Halachah
All jumbled up with borer

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

Fundamentals
A mother must first work on peace inside herself,

By Rebbetzin Shira Smiles

Personal Accounts
Five women — a skipper, a mathematics professor, a biomedical researcher, a house painter, and a mortgage broker — on b ...

By Esther Teichtal and Shalvi Waldman and Shira Yehudit Djalilmand

Magazine Feature
I’ve lost patience because I’ve allowed the Internet to become a central feature in my life. There, I said it. It’s ...

By Atira Rappaport

Whispers
How did I know I really had Marfan’s? Could it be I didn’t even own the suitcase of stuff I’d been carrying aroun ...

By Shira Hart

Table Talk
Today, both parents and educators pursue special services. But costs can be astronomical, and the process confusing and frustrating. That’s where Leah Steinberg comes in.

By Malky Lowinger

Shul with a View
Weight is painful enough; why add to the agony?

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

Profiles
Abraham Leib Berenstein was living a glamorous life, jetting around the world as a ski instructor and movie stuntman, unti ...

By Barbara Bensoussan

Jewish Geography
Not Hamas,It isn’t that Israeli Arabs have become Zionists, but most have become realistic, realizing that Israel is now t ...

By Ariel Ben Solomon

Summer Job
It was as if Rivky had found a new project and it wasn’t him. She’d found herself a new cause — out of the ...

By Dov Haller

Windows
Savta Tova is our family’s only direct ancestor to be buried in Israel, and I felt a strange urge to visit her gr ...

By Shira Yehudit Djalilmand

LifeTakes
I’m the mother in the middle, orbiting between these contrasting worlds, trying to give each child what she needs while ...

By Leah Stein