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What Bobbi Brown Gets Right About Beauty

Beauty mogul Bobbi Brown, the first to build a makeup company around skincare, is a visionary. In the ‘80s, when everyone was caking on makeup to hide imperfections, she took a different approach—enhancing your natural beauty by using less product. Her definition of beauty is more than skin deep. At a time when the industry […]

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Seven Steps to Becoming More Optimistic

Most of us are not naturally optimistic. When life gets difficult, our minds often jump to worry, self‑criticism, or the belief that one bad moment predicts a bad future. But psychology research finds something encouraging: optimism is not a fixed trait. It is a learnable skill, shaped by the way you interpret events, the habits […]

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The Little Hat on My Head
A neighborly encounter turned ominous.

The morning after a tornado swept through my neighborhood in suburban Kansas, I stepped onto the patio and discovered a 60-foot tree lying at my feet. It was soon obvious that clearing the tree would be too much for a DIY project, so I hired a professional. He showed up a few days later. Early […]

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Rescuing His Daughter from a Church Orphanage
During the Holocaust these nuns hid Jewish children. Sometimes they didn't want to let them go.

Yehoshua Milansky* a successful wholesaler in Vilna, was a single parent of three young daughters when World War II began in 1939. His wife had died of an illness before the war, and he was raising the girls, Yetta, Shira and Rachel on his own. Rachel was the baby, and she held a special place […]

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No, Will Sexton, The Talmud Doesn't Say That

Will Sexton's viral video attacking the Talmud is full of mistakes. Rabbi Rowe takes it apart, point by point.

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