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February 2018
So, Charlie from across the street had a heart attack and died, and Maureen wants to live with her adult kids. San Diego....
Green with Envy // Are bungalow colonies fertile breeding grounds for jealousy?
When we finally finished putting all our earthly possessions into the moving truck and buckled our kids into the minivan, I could have wept...
A Web of Confusion // If It Wasn’t A Bite, What Was It???
“I have a mosquito bite,” my friend tells me late one night over the telephone.
This common, rather picayune occurrence, which afflicts most of us...
A Hidden Danger in My Medicine Chest // The medicine meant to heal...
There was a voice in my head telling me to get out of there and run. So I ran. I ran and ran like...
On a Wing and a Prayer
A few days ago, my good friend Avi Hager called me to share an incredible story of hashgachah pratis.
“Two months ago,” he told me,...
Clarity in the Blink of an Eye // He seemed like the perfect boy....
Being thrown into the icy waters of shidduchim was hard for me after the warmth and comfort of two years in seminary in Yerushalayim....
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It had been a little over a year since I received my first phone call from Sarala Mantel, a popular sheitelmacher in Lakewood. She...
A Mother’s Nachas // It was the only thing that gave meaning to...
“So how are my adorable grandchildren?” Esther Raizel, my coworker, asked me one morning. “Do you get to see them?”
“They’re doing great!” I replied,...
On Call // A new organization named JOWMA is exactly what the doctor...
When Dr. Mimi Knoll and I enter Eliana Fine Feld’s house in West Hempstead on an ordinary Tuesday night, I immediately do a double-take....
Wat About the Wife who suffers alone?
She hears the soft tread of footsteps nearby, padding down the building’s thickly carpeted corridor, and wonders, almost ironically, if by some slim chance...
