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November 04, 2009
Paying Babysitters on Time - Jewish Law
Rabbi Yosef Fleischman

Question: I hired a babysitter to watch my children. Must I pay the babysitter as soon as I return? Does it make a difference if the babysitter asks for the money or not and if she is a child or an adult?

October 22, 2009
My 35th Wedding Anniversary
Susan Schwartz

My husband is upstairs in bed, sleeping the deep sleep of a body stricken with the flu. Downstairs, my daughter’s newborn son is sleeping peacefully...

October 20, 2009
Tel Aviv Centennial Slideshow
Rebecca Kowalsky and Toby Klein Greenwald

Whenever I’ve completed work on a particularly exhausting project and feel the need to “get away from it all," my husband and I do the next best thing to hopping a plane to somewhere abroad. We drive from Efrat to the Beit Shemesh train station, and hop a train to Tel Aviv.

October 15, 2009
The Fifth Glass of Vodka
Sarah Shapiro

One rainy winter night, R’ Bunim happily found shelter from a frigid downpour at an inn along his route. As the innkeeper welcomed him in and served him a hot drink, R’ Bunim glanced around and noticed that the place was bereft of customers. “How’s business these days?” he asked.

September 30, 2009
Pacing
Yael Mermelstein

“Did I tell you what happened to me on Erev Sukkot?” my friend Atara asks me. We sit in her kitchen as she spices her salmon. Our children play outside in the Sukkah...

September 24, 2009
The Long Way Home
Simon Wolf

This past year, during the early days of the Gaza War, I traveled down South with Yad Eliezer and had the opportunity to visit with our wounded soldiers in Soroka Hospital...

September 24, 2009
The Nullity of Being; the Greatness of Being
Rabbi Eliyahu Safran

Regardless of how it is characterized, man’s essential duality creates tension in his life...

September 17, 2009
Binding of Isaac
Ester Katz Silvers

Every year as the New Year approaches I find that, despite my best intentions, reality dictates that I concentrate more on the physical preparations than the spiritual ones for the holiday.

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