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Need a boost? You’ve come to the right place. Stories and essays that center around the depth and beauty of life.

Return of the Pirate
Return of the Pirate
For all of us who thought pirates were a thing of the past, relegated to cartoon characters and Disney movies, the past months have been a rude awakening. One of the...
Apr 23, 2009
By Rabbi Leiby Burnham
How Beautiful are Your Tents, O Jacob
How Beautiful are Your Tents, O Jacob
We, the children, gather. We return to this house more suddenly than we could have imagined those few months ago when we buried her, summoned by news of a buyer with...
Apr 21, 2009
By Joe Kraus
Second Thoughts: Financial Concerns
Second Thoughts: Financial Concerns
Who am I, with my minuscule (and usually depleted) bank account, to speak about the great financial concerns of the world? What wisdom can I scrounge up which can help fill...
Apr 20, 2009
By Yaffa Ganz
Parshat Shemini: Practice Makes Perfect
Parshat Shemini: Practice Makes Perfect
We all hope for Perfection. Some of us even do something about it. For many years he has worked. A dreamer by trade, an architect by necessity. He has built and...
Apr 12, 2009
By Mendel Jacobson
Consequences: A Holiday Story
Consequences: A Holiday Story
I had just located the parsley, hidden in a back corner of the refrigerator, when the phone rang. Extracting myself from the fridge, I found my twin sister Amy on the...
Mar 31, 2009
By Michelle Kay
Redemption and a New York Taxi Ride
Redemption and a New York Taxi Ride
When you get into a taxi in New York City you never know what’s going to happen. Every urban traveler knows that within each of the myriad of cabs crisscrossing the...
Mar 31, 2009
By Baila Rosenbaum
Ready or Not… Here it comes
Ready or Not… Here it comes
Keeping our focus during the Pre-Pesach Rush “Here we go again…” thought Shuli, as she bent down to clean the large amount of “stuff” that had accumulated under the children’s beds...
Mar 31, 2009
By Aliza Swift
Taking the Magic Back
Taking the Magic Back
When springtime comes I begin scowling at the insides of closets and the undersides of beds. “Pesach is coming,” I mutter to myself and sigh. “Pesach is coming,” I repeat, “and...
Mar 19, 2009
By Yael Zoldan
Second Thoughts: Price of Progress
Second Thoughts: Price of Progress
The rabbis tell us that our physical world is a down-to-earth image of the heavenly spheres. The plan of the Beit Hamikdash, for example, is based on kabbalistic architectural plans which...
Mar 18, 2009
By Yaffa Ganz
Brave New World
Brave New World
My mom just called to announce that she’d taken herself “off the grid”. This is the psychological equivalent of a drug addict going cold turkey, but you’ll have to trust me...
Mar 11, 2009
By Joyce Schur

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