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HOME & FAMILY

Sitck Figure
a story by Sara Gutfreund

Shira is cleaning for Pesach. She is in the boys' room now, and the mess overwhelms her. When are they going to clean their own room? They're teenagers now, Shira reminds herself with a sigh. Maybe she is isn't raising them right. She can never seem to convince them to help around the house.

The Coat
a true story by M. Prague

I go out only one evening a week, to volunteer for "Lev L'Achim." But that single evening has changed several things in my life, reorganized my outlook on life in general. Before that, I used to think that our kitchen table was an old piece of junk (which, in fact, it is -- inherited from my husband's great-grandmother!), and that we also needed a couch urgently.

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Believing in Science

by R' Zvi Zobin

Science as a fad. Rabbi Zobin's observations apply equally to secular education which embraces and casts out learning approaches, only to return to Square One. And `One' by believing Jews is the One of the Only One's Torah.

Pain
by A. Ross, M.Ed.

A child is exposed to pain from the moment he is born. The very fact that he changes his environment from the soft warm cushioned existence which he lived in for nine months to the cold harsh world of reality is traumatic. Then there are the various routine pricks, followed by circumcision if he is a boy. How does a parent cope with this pain?

Lonely Bird on a Rooftop
by Bayla Gimmel

On a lovely spring-like day I went to mail a letter. As I approached the local post office, I noticed that, as usual, there were several recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union sitting on the benches opposite the entrance.

Philosophy on a Golden Age
by Rosally Saltsman

When I look at old people, I realize two things. Once they were like me and one day, I'm going to be like them, b'ezras Hashem.

Why is This Happening?
by Rosally Saltsman

Economic tshuva. The less we need, the less we need.

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