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Shoshana Stauber
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Faigy Schonfeld
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Chaya Singer
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Ilana Shafer
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Miriam Schweid
Feature Videos
When your work puts you inside some of the most sensitive situations in our community, how can you keep from burning out?
Yisroel Besser
Feature Videos
If people are giving, does it matter how much they spend on material items in their lives?
Yisroel Besser
Symposium
Candid takes from people who made the move
Mishpacha Contributors
Symposium
Some of this generation’s most sought-after mentors offer insight on navigating the challenges, dilemmas, and victories of the ben Torah in today’s workplace
Mishpacha Contributors
The Lens
Their departure from the dining room took well over an hour
Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz
The Lens
While he has passed on to the Next World, the photo captures his otherworldly chein for posterity
Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz
Family First Inbox
“I opened up this week’s Family First and saw your Know This about preemies, and wow, it felt like a hug from Hashem”
Family First Readers
Family First Inbox
“Someone who is 5'3" and 160 pounds doesn’t look obese or even extremely overweight in normal reality”
Family First Readers
On My Shelf: Pesach Theme 5783
Writers share the backstory of the prized possession they’ll keep forever 
Rachel Bachrach
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“There is a guy at the front door with candy and flowers! I didn’t open it but I can see through the glass!”

By Rivky Singer

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How many difficult moments have you faced — and then risen above them with every ounce of self-control you could muster?

By Malka Forster

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It’s strange how all the tactless comments and stares and annoying advice never made me flinch, but this pinches me inside and leaves me feeling vaguely unsettled

By Faigy Schonfeld

LifeTakes

Zeidy extracts several colored dreidels and everyone scrambles into place

By Yael Stolcz

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Every year I am a little bit sad on that first day as my children go off to a new year

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

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Eleven months a year, I’m a staunch city girl…But come July, and I am transformed into a country girl

By Faigy Schonfeld