Dear Readers,
Publisher, CEO Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter
Editorial
Senior Editor Rechy Frankfurter Managing Editors Victoria Dwek Yossi Krausz Feature Editor Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum Coordinating Editor Rivka Wilenkin Copy Editors Basha Majerczyk Mendelovicii Rabbi Yisroel Benedek Editors/Proofreaders Dina Schreiber Yitzchok A. Preis Sholom Laine
Art
Art Director Paul Crawford
USUALLY, BY THE TIME I sit down to write this column for a Yom Tov issue, it is with a deep sense of joy and accomplishment. After weeks of hard work, we are finally almost done. This year, however, things have been very different. The magazine wasn’t produced with all our staff together in the office, against a backdrop of phones ringing, copy machines purring, writers, editors, graphic artists—even sales and office staff bouncing off ideas, sharing tips, eating lunch and sometimes supper, plus the fun diversion of visitors stopping by (our office is in the heart of Boro Park, and we tend to receive many visitors). These days, our office is silent and deserted. For the past three weeks, ever since one of our graphic artists reported symptoms of the coronavirus, our office has been closed. This entire magazine package was produced remotely, each of us in our own home but connected electronically. Everyone who participated in its production did so under a lot of pressure and strain, but with the utmost grace, generosity and loyalty.
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This year, instead of a feeling of spring in the air and excited anticipation of the upcoming Yom Tov, the atmosphere is akin to Erev Yom Kippur, a feeling that we are all facing the Yom Hadin, each of us immersed in teshuvah and tefillah as we read the daily roll call of those who are hospitalized, or lo aleinu, have passed away. So while we are grateful that in our own small way—by providing terrific reading material for you to be inspired by or relax or escape with—we are able to alleviate
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