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Family First Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Issue 440
Bassi Gruen
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Family First Editor’s Letter: Issue 436  
Bassi Gruen
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Family First Editors Letter: Issue 421
Bassi Gruen
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Editor’s Letter: Issue 252
Shoshana Friedman
In His Own Words
Pick of the Day
Florist Amerique Ashear of Lakewood is happy to share his tips
Yosef Herz
Money Mindset
Money Mindset: Epilogue  
If you’ve followed our column, you know that it’s not about the budget. We take a completely unique approach to looking at money
Shterna Lazaroff
Money Mindset
Money Mindset: Chapter 6
“I live pretty free right now. Because I don’t know what’s happening, I don’t worry about it. And it all works out in the end”
Shterna Lazaroff
Minhag Match-up
Matzah Brei Waffles
Yirmiyahu’s Jerusalem is a mother, like me. But she hasn’t spent the past few hours holding, nurturing, or comforting her children. Her children are gone   Some years, it’s hard to believe that Tisha B’Av is coming. This year it seems only logical. Some years, it’s an effort to turn off the music and tune
Chanie Apfelbaum
Minhag Match-up
“Rice Is Nice” Brunch Salad 
Yirmiyahu’s Jerusalem is a mother, like me. But she hasn’t spent the past few hours holding, nurturing, or comforting her children. Her children are gone   Some years, it’s hard to believe that Tisha B’Av is coming. This year it seems only logical. Some years, it’s an effort to turn off the music and tune
Chavi Feldman
Always on Me
Walking the Walk     
Is there something you always carry on you, even if it’s seen better days?
Rabbi Meyer H. May
Always on Me
Merit Badge    
Is there something you always carry on you, even if it’s seen better days?
Rabbi Aharon Friedler
Moonlight
Is He My Bashert?
If you’re not looking for Heavenly signs if the boy you’re dating is your zivug, what approach should you take?
Rabbi Menachem Nissel
Fundamentals
Why We All Need a Hard (and a Soft) Heart
Why Elul needs a hard heart — and a soft one
Miriam Kosman
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The true tests are not when ideals are pitting against fleeting desires. It’s when ideals are pitted against ideals

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Family First Editors Letter: Issue 421

Some wonderful news: Batya Burd, whom we featured twice after the petirah of her husband, is a kallah! I’m sure you all join me in wishing her a huge, heartfelt mazel tov.

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Editor’s Letter: Issue 252

Yirmiyahu’s Jerusalem is a mother, like me. But she hasn’t spent the past few hours holding, nurturing, or comforting her children. Her children are gone

By Shoshana Friedman