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Dear Readers, I hope we never go back to normal. To the normal activity of taking things for granted: under-appreciating the basic items and people in our lives, the joy of meeting a friend in the street, the thrill of davening with a minyan or…

Book Review: Out of the Shadow, by Rochelle Garfield (JewishSelfPublishing 239 pages) Reviewed by Devorah Talia Gordon Out of the Shadow, Rochelle Garfield’s first novel, explores a plethora of today’s hot topics in the world of mental health, including psychotherapy, anorexia, and bipolar disorder. As…

When The Lubavitcher Rebbe Seld-Quarantined For The Seder Rabbi Pini Dunner, Rav of Young Israel North Beverly Hills One of the issues that has been coming up again and again in the past week during phone calls I have been having with my community, and…

Dear Readers, First of all, wishes for a refuah sheleimah to all those who need it. May Hashem ease the pain of all those suffering with the coming of Mashiach now. What a two weeks it has been. Everyone is at home here, and there’s…

Book Review: Finding Ourselves in the Crowd: What 18 Out-of-the-Box Jews Can Teach Us About Individuality in Orthodoxy by Gila Manolson (distributed by Feldheim Publishes 2020) Reviewed by Rebecca Klempner Gila Manolson, author of best-selling books The Magic Touch and Outside/Inside, has a new book…

All Female Hackathon at Touro’s Lander College for Women Celebrates Women in STEM Over 100 female hackers filled the gymnasium at Touro’s Lander College for Women (LCW) on Sunday, March 1st, for the 5th annual student-run hackathon, HackItTogether. The women shared a day of coding…

Dear Readers, It’s said in the name of the Maggid of Mezeritch, “See how precious the body of a Jew is to the Almighty; because of it we have forgone countless mitzvos!” Billions of individuals are currently home. No school, work, entertainment. Just us and…

Dear readers, Imagine what it would be like if by the click of a button you could spring into someone else and see things from their perspective: their upbringing, their reality, their disappointments, their successes. I imagine the world would be a lot more of…

Dear readers, Mishenichnas Adar marbim b’simchah! Our ability to feel joyous largely depends on our approach and attitude toward things. A few weeks ago, the skin on our toddler’s face had dry patches. I grabbed Vaseline, called her over, and was preparing to hold her…