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• Green Tuesday

  Chaim Mayer’s mother usually calls in on Thursdays to remind him to pick up the lokshen kugel for Shabbos, or of a family member’s shulem zucher, which s’volt gepast that he attend.

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• The Departed

  A report on the Footsteps organization and the lives of those who leave the ultra-Orthodox world. Article by Orli Santo.

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