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PERSONAL STORY
Remembering the Past: Reclaiming the Future
By: Curtis Casewit
The search for his father’s nest egg takes the author from the atrocities of Nazi Germany to the icy reality of modern-day Swiss bureaucracy.
COVER STORY
The Transformer
By: Rachel Ginsberg
He may look like a 19th-century chassidic rebbe, but Reuven Feuerstein’s cutting-edge ideas are revolutionizing care for disabled children.
PSYCHOLOGY
I Can’t Help Being Sensitive!
By: Dr. Ruth Benjamin
Sensitivity can be a great blessing, but
hypersensitivity can be a curse. How to
understand and heal this affliction.
KASHRUS
A Different Standard:
By: Rabbi Don Yoel Levy
Following in the footsteps of Rabbi Berel Levy, the OK continues to set the pace in kosher supervision.
KOSHER CATERING
Making the Most of Your Simchah:
By: Rabbi Avrohom Juravel
Supervision of a catering facility can be
complicated, but true diligence will make your wedding or bar mitzvah an event of which you can be proud.
PROFILE
Fleurchem: Where Nature, Chemicals and Kashrus Meet:
By: Eli Mandel
An interview with Moshe Gluck of Fleurchem, a leading chemicals and flavors company now under OK supervision.
LIFE STYLE
The Empty Nest Syndrome (Almost):
By: Sara Gottlieb
Imagining your children leaving home makes you want them around all the more.
FROM OUR TORAH
The Mountain and the Sea:
By: Yanki Tauber
Dealing with adversity: what we can learn
from the four groups that stood at the shore of
the Red Sea.
SHORT STORY
The Bar Mitzvah Present:
By: Eric Gutwillig
A 13-year-old boy asks for a most unusual gift, and teaches a few adults a thing or two about giving.
COOKING
The Splendid Feasts of Passover:
By: Lorraine Shapiro
Celebrating the Season of our Freedom the way Jews do best: around the table. Some outstanding recipes for an Ashkenazic or a Sephardic Seder.
REFLECTIONS
The Benefits of Being Stupid When You’re Old:
By: Jay Litvin
Most of us don’t know what it’s like for a child to feel stupid… until we feel stupid ourselves.
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DEPARTMENTS
Editorial
by Rochel Chana Schilder
Letters
to the Editors
Odds
& Ends
by Sara Chana Silverstein
Psychology Q&A
by Dr. Ruth Benjamin
Kashrus Q&A
Frequently asked questions on kashrus.
Computer Corner
The newest in Jewish-oriented software.
by Eli Mandel
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