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Advice June 19, 2025
Back From Israel To A New Reality
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence When we arrived home from Israel last Thursday afternoon, my mind was spinning in a...
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Advice June 18, 2025
MindBiz
Dear Esther, I married my husband, Lev, after knowing him for six months. We dated for about three months, and...
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Advice June 17, 2025
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
Chibas Eretz Yisrael: A love affair with Israel. We can’t explain it, it doesn’t always make sense, but like true...
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Advice June 17, 2025
Is One Good Friend Really Enough?
I was watching a show last week, and there was this moment when the mother turned to her daughter and...
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Home Advice June 17, 2025
Charitable Giving Through Your Estate Plan
If supporting causes you care about is part of your legacy, your estate plan can serve as a powerful and...
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Advice June 17, 2025
DATING FORUM
Question When I was in high school, there was an awful song called “Friday” that everyone loved. Fourteen years later,...
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Advice June 16, 2025
The Rocket’s Red Glare
When Francis Scott Key penned the lyrics to what would become the American National Anthem, he attempted to describe a...
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Advice June 11, 2025
Building Bridges In A Fractured World
Building Bridges In A Fractured World: A Review Of Common Ground By Rabbi Arieh Friedner 5TJT Staff In an era...
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Advice June 11, 2025
The Day I Stopped Hiding Behind My Own Smile
“I didn’t know all this about you, that you’re a professor, a writer. To me, you’re still my younger sister-in-law.”...
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Advice June 11, 2025
Reflections On Body Image, Vanity, And The Power Of Plastic Surgery
By B. Aviva Preminger, MD, MPH, FACS Recently, I returned to Cambridge for my 25th Harvard reunion. I rowed crew...
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Advice June 9, 2025
Gullible Travels
The Talmud (Yevamos 121a) tells the story of when Rabbi Akiva was shipwrecked at sea. He managed to find a piece...
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Advice May 26, 2025
The Torah Was Given in a Desert To Teach Us A Profound Truth
There’s something almost absurd about preparing for Shavuos with fresh-cut flowers and crisp white tablecloths when the holiest moment in...
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Advice May 26, 2025
Dating Forum
Question My twins, a boy and a girl, are both 30 and in shidduchim. Whenever I complain that the shidduch system is one-sided,...
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Advice May 21, 2025
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
This past Shabbos we had the great zechus to host Judith Raanan who, together with her daughter Natalie, were abducted on October...
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Advice May 20, 2025
What We Carry Until We Speak
They hadn’t been together in years. Fourteen siblings, each carrying different versions of their childhood, had not spoken for a...
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Advice May 14, 2025
The School Year Twilight
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence We’re at that funny point in the year when the kids seem to have collectively...
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Advice Torah May 14, 2025
Torah And Tefilla: A Two-Step Dance
By Yochanan Gordon Rebbe Nachman of Breslov taught that a Jew must turn their Torah into tefillah—not simply learn, but cry,...
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Advice May 13, 2025
Fine, But Not Fine
Sometimes I wish I could hook my brain up to a projector and show you what it’s like inside. Not...
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