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Learning to Live with Fragile Bones  
Tovy Mann
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Dealing with an Enchondroma Tumor
Tovy Mann
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Dealing with a Type of Mitochondrial Disease   
Tovy Mann
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Dealing with Migraines 
Chaya Rosen
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Dealing with Three Different Diagnoses
Chaya Rosen
By the Numbers
All Accounted for: The Conversation Continues
Parental support: readers share their takes
Family First Readers
By the Numbers
All Accounted For
As children become adults, how much do they — and should they — rely on their parents for support? Over 800 parents and children weigh in
Mishpacha Readers
The Last Flask
The Last Flask
And then they found it — the last flask, the small bottle that would enable them to start anew. 12 writers share the last flask that lit up their own lives rattle of hope
Family First Contributors
Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
Istanbul Airport: Yom Kippur 5772
“Please come with me,” she begged. “It’ll be a one-time thing — and the trip won’t last more than 24 hours”
Sarah Pardes
Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
A Nursing Home in Yerushalayim: Yom Kippur 5761
It wouldn’t be easy to both fast and care for my father the entire day. So, the zechus of the mitzvah fell on me
Sarah Pardes
A Promise Kept
Mission Accomplished
My companions  — along with the bag I was counting on to keep us alive — vanished in the chaos
Yael Schuster
A Promise Kept
Cookies and Caring
We’d created a haven for them to unburden their hearts, and sent them away with the sweetness of home cooking
Millie Samson
Teen Serial
Upper Class: Chapter 17
I’m lying here and not moving. Ever, maybe. Just let 11th grade begin without me. Who needs an education anyway, am I right?
Ariella Schiller
Teen Serial
Upper Class: Chapter 16
“Nomes. Let it go. Yocheved will come around. It’s not your problem, okay? You did your best, you apologized, whether you needed to or not. She’s a big girl, she’ll come to her senses.”
Ariella Schiller
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Dealing with Severe Atopic Dermatitis

There are treatments to try and relieve AD, but there is no cure

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Hidden Heroes  Part 6/6: Dealing with Crohn’s 

There is no cure for Crohn’s, but the disease can be kept under control with diet and medications and sometimes surgery

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Part 4 of 6: Dealing with BPD 

“You can be happy even if you’re different, and you can still experience incredible simchas chayim even if you’re not perfectly healthy”

By Chaya Rosen

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Dealing with Diabetes: part 3 of 6     

Kids with type 1 diabetes monitor their blood sugar with finger-pricks and a tiny device (glucometer)

By Chaya Rosen