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Elevate
Had we been waiting all these months for an appointment with the wrong doctor?
Family First Contributors
Elevate
The shomer Shabbos is able to look at the life they have been blessed with and say, “It’s a beautiful world!”
Family First Contributors
By the Letter
    A rebbe who saw latent greatness in even the humblest of Jews Photos: Yoely Strohli Budapest, Hungary, in 1944 was a pile of red-hot coals about to ignite into flame. The country was on the brink of the German occupation that would massacre Hungarian Jewry. Against the backdrop of destruction, hiding in a bunker
Mindel Kassorla and Mindel Kassorla and Cindy Landesman
By the Letter
Life is a cycle — and a spiral that pushes us higher
Cindy Landesman and Mindel Kassorla
Torah Thought
Torah leaders confronting the Enlightenment were forced to develop innovative and original approaches to preserving and transmitting the mesorah. Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch’s groundbreaking commentary on Chumash stands out.
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Pesach Without Pressure
Windex — it’s all about happy Jews and Windex.
Bracha Stein
Pesach Without Pressure
If you’re getting frustrated, you’re probably spring-cleaning
Bracha Stein
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  Family First reader Esti Meyers shares her real-world meal strategies
Esti Meyers
Living Room
Are there benefits to foam rolling?
Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz
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