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Children love to play with words. They enjoy the mixing of sounds and they appreciate how similar-sounding words can have totally different meanings. Hebrew is much more powerful than English and so, it is much easier to `play' with Hebrew words than with English words.

The Importance of Tzedoka
A Story from the Days of Yerusholayim of Yesteryear
by Yisca Shimony

Rebbetzin Beila Hinda Meltzer was extremely busy writing, as usual. She was copying the chidushei Torah of her esteemed husband, Hagaon Maran R' Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rosh Yeshivas Etz Chaim in Yerusholayim.

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Can You Just "Try It and See if it Works"?
by R' Zvi Zobin

Several arguments are often given to justify "Just trying Ritalin to see if it works" when we need to help a child who suffers from symptoms of ADD or ADHD.

Owl, Fowls and Shidduch Issues
by Bayla Gimmel

Early one summer, in a shiur addressed to mothers of out-of-town seminary girls, the principal of a Bais Yaakov high school in the States began with, "Your daughters will be returning from seminary very soon. Hug them and kiss them, welcome them home, let them unpack and then marry them off."

I Don't Have the Answers

An assignment for our readers. Take this title and conjure with it. See what you can produce out of the top of your head or the bottom of your sleeve, as did these two writers at a creative writers' workshop. We'd like to see your efforts, with a minimum of rewriting...

The Best Years of Our Life
by A. Ross, M.Ed.

One of the great gifts which human beings are blessed with is the ability to forget. Normal people cope with a tremendous amount of pain and suffering, yet do not dwell on it, and learn to live with it after a while, and in time, the pain of the loss of a loved one, or the trauma of a physical injury, fades. Women willingly enter into childbirth, having `forgotten' the previous discomfort.

Your Medical Questions Answered!
by Joseph B. Leibman, MD

Still answering more letters that have come in.

A question was posed about urinary tract infections. We basically dealt with this in the not distant past. I will only add an answer to the question of this problem in pregnancy.

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