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"To make matches, you have to be caring and daring."

This is straight from the shadchan's mouth. Caring, because if you really care for someone, you try to help him/her, rather than discuss him, pity him and go on with your life. Daring, because many a matchmaker has to ignore superficial impressions and stereotypes before he dares to suggest a match that others would have questioned, ridiculed or scorned.

NOSTALGIA
Modesty Above All
A Jewish Princess -- A Jewish `Queen'-Mother
by Anni Rephun Fruchter

In the summer of 1934, Mutti heard of a young American woman who was stranded in Karlsruhe. She had come to Germany with her father who was unaware of the many new laws of foreign exchange. He was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to a year in jail.

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
It All Has to Make Sense
by R' Zvi Zobin

The symptoms described by the Ramchal -- the feeling that one is continually loaded down by a heavy weight, trying and laboring, feeling constantly exhausted and tired, seeing no satisfaction in life -- seem to be those of classic `burnout.'

Please Don't Give Me Any Credit
by Rosally Saltsman

We live in a world of Buy Today, Pay Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow after that. Gone are the days when you had to save up for something. Today you can buy things with monthly payments, credit, post-dated checks, loans and overdraft. And the better you are at paying off your debt, the more credit (read: debt) you're allowed to have. Forget Cash and Carry. We're into the long haul.

COMMUNICATION
Aphasia
by A. Ross, M.Ed.

Most people have never heard the term aphasia, unless a close family member has it. Yet there are about twice as many people with aphasia as there are sufferers of Parkinson's.

Strings Attached
by Rosally Saltsman

If you see Shelley Kramer, you're likely to hear violins. That's because she's the conductor of Avivim, an all-female orchestra made up of chareidi women who play only for audiences of chareidi women. The orchestra which is about 6 years old features 16 musicians. "There are some that are graduates of our department and there are Russian and Anglo Saxon olim."

Learning Styles and the Visual Learner
by Devora Piha

Part II

In Part I we discussed the various ways the brain has of integrating new information, in other words, how children learn. We mentioned eight basic categories: the simultaneous learner (total picture); the sequential learner; the auditory learner; the visual learner; the three dimensional learner; the two dimensional learner; the tactile learner and the kinesthetic learner. Most people are combinations.

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