Yoma 65

Dear Daf Yomi,  I live too far from Jerusalem to deliver my annual contribution to the Temple myself, so my neighbors and I pooled our shekels together and sent them via messenger. But somewhere along the way, our package was lost.  I’m happy to do my part to support the ritual practices of the Temple, […]

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Flu, 1918

This essay appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. Rose Riegelhaupt (1906–1984) grew up in the Jewish community of Poughkeepsie, New York. She wrote this memoir, which was recently discovered in an old box of her papers, sometime in the late 1970s.  IT WAS THE YEAR 1918. It was a year […]

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