Story Time
“It’s the insignia of the Russians! The soldiers were likely not coming at behest of the poritz, but perhaps to fight the poritz!”
School Daze
There are a lot of other ways to be successful than being academic. You are so much more than the grades you get!
Teen Diary Serial
I wished I could make Yom Tov feel a little more yontifdig. But I couldn’t get into the right mood
Normal
“Mona Lisa. You’ve never heard of it? The most famous portrait painting in the world, by Leonardo da Vinci"
Building Dreams
“Yeah, well,” Dovid said. I waited, but he didn’t continue speaking. He just took his yarmulke off his head and twirled it around on his finger
The Moment
Too young to learn a mishnah, or even to contemplate a machsheves mussar, he was sitting with his Alef Binah
The Moment
One little girl excitedly ran to her father — a yungerman — to seek confirmation
Shul with a View
At the moment of their deepest, darkest pain, Jewish mothers become Jewish heroines
Text Messages
Something as simple as the landline phone kept the members of a family connected to each other
