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Akeida Moments
“Why do you think you lost?” one reporter asked. “Because the judge was on the boys’ side,”

By Cindy Scarr

Akeida Moments
A small corner of my Gan Eden will feature a pile of Divine garbage, smelling of roses

By S.T. Agam

Akeida Moments
It’s so easy to tell Hashem, You can have my dolls and teddy bear. My Shabbos and kashrus. My elbows and knees… but my pearls, my tzniyus, my hair — that’s mine.

By Rochel (Grunewald) Samet

Akeida Moments
I pick up my phone to call my mother. I stop. It’s Yom Tov tomorrow. Must I ruin it for everyone?

By Faigy Schonfeld

Akeida Moments
The child, his stomach grumbling with hunger, his pekel light and empty, took the coins eagerly. Money!

By Riki Goldstein

Akeida Moments
“I accept Your Will Hashem,” I whispered, “I accept this nisayon, please just give me the koach.”

By Avigayil Wein

Akeida Moments
Sometimes I’d believe I could slip into it, if I could just find the portal to enter. A place that would accept me, quirks and all.

By Esther Kurtz

Akeida Moments
Millennia later, can we seize the sparks of Avraham Avinu’s sacrifice, and bind our hearts to our Creator?

By Tova Berger

Akeida Moments
Inside I burn. This is his health. How can he be so dispassionate?

By Faigy Markowitz

Summer Job
“You’re looking at me like you recognize me from a picture hanging in the post office. Just say it already. What?” R ...

By Dov Haller

Magazine Feature
Ever since Har Sinai, the shofar has been associated with momentous events. Nothing can beat a horn’s blast when you wa ...

By Libi Astaire

Jewish Geography
The people, places, phenomena, episodes, and news that have characterized 5776

By Binyamin Rose

Text Messages
Did we come all this way just to be yotzei?

By Eytan Kobre

 
“It took me until 5:43 this afternoon to arrive at total forgiveness”

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman