Family First Feature
It’s tempting to bypass the distressing feelings and skip straight to declarations of emunah. But true emunah requires facing pain and ambivalence, and only then transcending them
Personal Accounts
Wherever we are, whoever we’re with... On the seventh day we rest. Nine tales of Shabbos spent in unexpected spots
Family Matters
I think the reason she chose me to be her confidante is obvious: I’d been a caregiver. I’d been there. I would get it
Fiction
“He’s not one of those guys who opens the cream cheese container but leaves the plastic wrap half attached on top, is he? Because that’s bad middos”
Behind the Book
As humans, we have many different parts of our personalities. We also have weaknesses and wounds. But as Hashem’s people, we have an actual part of Him within us. That’s our Aweso ...
Yardsticks
Shevy twisted the bag around her finger and inhaled. “I’m not dumb. I know something’s wrong. You’re hiding something about the Engels. What is it? Tell me, I can handle it”
Vacancies
Naomi sighed. This was ridiculous. She’d been married for 16 years. Why was she still worrying about what her sisters-in-law thought about her?
LifeTakes
And then it’s time for the most important, most integral part of Visiting Day: leaving camp grounds!
All I Ask
A wanderer and a vagabond, that’s what he was. A person with no place, no family, no one waiting for him to come home
Text Messages
For some reason these heterodox clergymen are far more interested in bettering the lot of chassidic kids in Williamsburg than secular Jewish kids in their own congregations
Shul with a View
If and when your rabbi asks you to be the honoree, have rachmanus on him and say yes
Story Time
“Aharon, why should I trust you? The last time I went with you, I woke up all alone in an unfamiliar forest”
