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#114
Issue 912
May 24, 2022 · 8 min read

You’re Not Alone

“You maligned us! You broke our confidentiality! You terrible, terrible man!”

#113
Issue 911
May 17, 2022 · 7 min read

Don’t Force It

I was a bit overwhelmed myself— it’s not every day you see a person so candidly willing to…

#112
Issue 910
May 10, 2022 · 7 min read

Tu Quoi? 

No, he’s not crazy like he’s a psychiatric patient, more like he’s broken.It’s like something happened to him…

#111
Issue 909
May 3, 2022 · 7 min read

What You Pray For

"The daily pressures required so much of us just to stay alive.There was no free moment to worry…

#110
Issue 908
April 26, 2022 · 8 min read

The Best-Laid Plans

There was more happening here than some immature anxiety over a move, or even a bout of baby-blues

#109
Issue 907
April 11, 2022 · 7 min read

You’re a Gem

"Their behavior doesn’t change your inherent value, all it does is prove that they aren’t good gemologists"

#108
Issue 906
April 5, 2022 · 7 min read

Find the Love

“Lazer, who gave you the idea that you’re a worthless failure?”

#107
Issue 905
March 29, 2022 · 7 min read

Nobody’s Home

"Hashem has to run the world because otherwise we’d need to make sense out of our pain and…

#106
Issue 904
March 22, 2022 · 7 min read

Payback Time

Yonatan had access to unlimited funds. Then what was the lying, stealing, and manipulating about?

#105
Issue 903
March 15, 2022 · 8 min read

Truth or Consequences

“Yonatan, this is perhaps the most therapeutic moment you’ve had in your entire life”

#104
Issue 902
March 8, 2022 · 7 min read

To Each His Own

“Maybe the kid is just a ganef.End of story. Why do you think otherwise?”

#103
Issue 901
March 1, 2022 · 8 min read

No Illusions

"You’ve got to get his family here ASAP and have them take achrayus"

#102
Issue 900
February 22, 2022 · 8 min read

Ruffled Feathers

"It’s just he has this thing with birds... uh, sometimes he thinks he has feathers"

#101
Issue 899
February 15, 2022 · 8 min read

Forgive Yourself

"Every day I see the tefillin shel rosh as they fell from his hands as clearly as I…

#100
Issue 898
February 8, 2022 · 7 min read

Other Side of the Mountain

"All I’ve been given in This World is nothing compared to the faith I learned from a rock"

#99
Issue 897
February 1, 2022 · 8 min read

No More Choices

Anyone with Persian cousins, as I have, had heard this story in its many sad, sometimes miraculous variations

#98
Issue 896
January 25, 2022 · 7 min read

Tea and Sympathy

"I want to ask you, how do I tell them everything else that I’ve never told them?"