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Latest Family First Editor's Letter
Family First Editor's Letter
Bassi Gruen
Family First Editor's Letter
Bassi Gruen
Family First Editor's Letter
Bassi Gruen
Family First Editor's Letter
Bassi Gruen
Family First Editor's Letter
Bassi Gruen
It Happened at Midnight: Pesach Theme 5783
While the world dreams and the stars twinkle, the Creator neither slumbers nor sleeps. Ten stories of midnight miracles, epiphanies, and revelations
Family First Contributors
Podcast: Ask Sarah Chana
LISTEN: How can we hold on to the positive aspects of the quarantine existence?
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A mother asks Sarah Chana how to react when her defiant teen refuses to comply with the community lockdown.
Sarah Chana Radcliffe
Parallel Journeys
I look at my face in those pictures and see my innocence: How I thought things would stay that way forever, sharing a journey with Etty, sharing our lives.
Faigy Schonfeld
Parallel Journeys
Good girls don’t ask, I was told
Esty Mandelbaum
Editor's Letter
Maybe the ultimate strength of Stories is their unique ability to wrangle with the soul
Rachael Lavon
Editor's Letter
You struggle and toil and build, and then it all comes down, but perhaps that’s the point. Perhaps the glory is in the effort, not the result
Yisroel Besser
heartbeats
While working on our “Impressions” theme, I found myself thinking about that cholent "We really enjoyed your cholent.” The sweet newlywed we’d had for the Shabbos seudah was on the line. “Can you give me the recipe?” “Sure. First sauté lots of onion and garlic…” As I spoke, my mind wandered to my own shanah
Refoel Pride
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