It Hurts to be Beautiful
I guess I should have listened to Mama, Esther thought ruefully as she rubbed the angry blister blossoming on the back of her heel. Today
December 24, 2024
I guess I should have listened to Mama, Esther thought ruefully as she rubbed the angry blister blossoming on the back of her heel. Today
Rebecca was incensed. Every time Mrs. Klein returned her studentsâ essays the grades were the same. Aâs for the girls the teacher liked and Bâs
âSo what do you girls do up there by yourselves in yenemâs velt?â (ânowheresÂvilleâ in English) It was always difficult to explain the lure of
On Monday evening, June 24, Yeshivat Shaâalvim and Shaâalvim for Women will acÂknowledge its accomplished graduates and many years of advanced Torah learning at its
As a child, I always hated that my birthday often came out on Shavuot. True, my mom would make me a festive strawberry shortcake and
If you were to check out all the beautiful family photographs of our recent family trip to Epcot, it would become immediately obvious that everyone
Art is a great equalizer. There really is no right or wrong way to create something beautiful. Rather, it is a vehicle through which one
Despite my tendency to obsess about the chag as soon as Yosef and Mitzrayim are mentioned in one breath in the weekly Parsha reading, the
My father loved tchotchkes. Perhaps this was because he didnât have much to call his own, growing up as one of seven siblings in a
When 12 year-old Reina Amar, daughter of Ahrona and Alain Amar of Teaneck, visited Israel for the first time this summer, she was taken by
I am usually allergic to any form of physical exercise, yet I have managed to trek more miles in the last few days than the
TeaneckâThe night of March 12 was stormy and the audience in the TABC Beit Midrash was sparse, but that did not dim the enthusiasm of
