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At Family First, our goal is to inspire: with recipes, tablescape designs, and, most importantly, chesed ideas. Jews are a community-minded people, and food is one (major) medium through which we promote acts of kindness, whether through meals we make for others or the simchahs we send that food to. Elevating the mundane is a job we women don't
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How can I, as a parent, best advocate for my son's therapy?
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Counter Point
All Our Children: The conversation continues
"When parents stop sacrificing their children upon the altars of self-image, we will have students who feel valued by, and love for, the systems they are in"
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Lipa's Super Seder Takeover
At Family First, our goal is to inspire: with recipes, tablescape designs, and, most importantly, chesed ideas. Jews are a community-minded people, and food is one (major) medium through which we promote acts of kindness, whether through meals we make for others or the simchahs we send that food to. Elevating the mundane is a job we women don't
Money Talks
Watch! Money Talks with Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald
At Family First, our goal is to inspire: with recipes, tablescape designs, and, most importantly, chesed ideas. Jews are a community-minded people, and food is one (major) medium through which we promote acts of kindness, whether through meals we make for others or the simchahs we send that food to. Elevating the mundane is a job we women don't
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Turkish Trail Mix
Mile by mile, tweet by tweet, Rabbi Mendy Chitrik traipses through Turkey on the ultimate back-to-roots Jewish journey
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On Site
The Hills Are Alive
Sometimes to have a great trip, all you need is a Tanach
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Feature Videos
WATCH! Stardust in Seagate
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Feature Videos
Take 2 with Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Echoes From Lublin
Close to a century later, we're still singing the songs of a visionary scholar, builder, and leader.
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For the Record
Signed in Knyszyn, Sealed in Eternity
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For the Record
The Long Gray Line Ends in Israel
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Padlocks
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Top Secret
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LifeLines
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The brother we knew was never coming back
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At Family First, our goal is to inspire: with recipes, tablescape designs, and, most importantly, chesed ideas. Jews are a community-minded people, and food is one (major) medium through which we promote acts of kindness, whether through meals we make for others or the simchahs we send that food to. Elevating the mundane is a job we women don't
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Make your own tornado tube with Yochanan Ghoori!
Watch Yochanan Ghoori's homemade tornado!
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Incredible Lab
Make Your Own Tornado Tube!
Use colored Chanukah oil and some spinning power to create your own tornado vortex
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An expert panel featuring Rabbi Menachem Karmel, Rabbi Zvi Bender and Rabbi Ari Schonfeld, moderated by Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan WATCH / LISTEN TO THE PANEL HERE
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You can pull out an old game from the basement — but why not play one of these creative, curated games for even more fun?
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A Different Way
When there’s “another way,” no matter how hard — Rav Mattisyahu Salomon showed us that’s the road to take
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Rav Chaim Ozer calmly said, “Go to America, Reb Avrohom, and ratevet, save as many people as you can”
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At Family First, our goal is to inspire: with recipes, tablescape designs, and, most importantly, chesed ideas. Jews are a community-minded people, and food is one (major) medium through which we promote acts of kindness, whether through meals we make for others or the simchahs we send that food to. Elevating the mundane is a job we women don't
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At Family First, our goal is to inspire: with recipes, tablescape designs, and, most importantly, chesed ideas. Jews are a community-minded people, and food is one (major) medium through which we promote acts of kindness, whether through meals we make for others or the simchahs we send that food to. Elevating the mundane is a job we women don't
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