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The Nachas Call
Rebecca (Feldbaum) Steier
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All For the Boys
Esther Kurtz
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Packaging Before Product
Aidel Loeb
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Dreaming of Rest
Yehudit Garmaise
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Pain Is Pain
Lea Pavel
Special Tribute Supplement: Rav Ovadiah Yosef
People, Passion & Pride
Rav Ovadiah always viewed Shas as a bridge between religious and secular forces in Israel
Mishpacha Contributors
Special Tribute Supplement: Rav Ovadiah Yosef
Sefarim were his Bread
“These sefarim are my fathers and teachers. When I was very young, I saved penny after penny so that I could purchase them. I went without bread to be able to buy another sefer for my home.”
Mishpacha Contributors
Family First Editor's Letter
Flashback: Editor's Letter, Issue 788
Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.
Bassi Gruen
Family First Editor's Letter
Family First Editor's Letter: Issue 788
Sometimes the solution isn’t about tackling the reality, but about altering what we tell ourselves about that reality.
Bassi Gruen
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While We Wait
It will take wisdom, foresight, and some soul-searching from both the top and the grassroots to address those changes.
Shoshana Friedman
EndNote
Give Me a Break
On the heels of the pre-Pesach wedding season and Chol Hamoed celebrations comes the silence of Sefirah. As we count upward with anticipation toward Shavuos on one hand, and mourn historic national tragedy on the other, weddings wait and the music goes mute. But what about all the singers and musicians, the mainstay of Jewish weddings and other joyous events?
Riki Goldstein
A Heaping Scoop
A Heaping Scoop: Fresh Flowers
Do you have any tricks to keeping flowers fresh throughout Yom Tov?
Family Table Contributors
A Heaping Scoop
A Heaping Scoop: Quick-but-Special Dinner
What’s a quick-but-special dinner you make when you want to go all out, like on Rosh Chodesh?
Family Table Readers
Normal
Normal: Afterword  
As Mimi’s world came to life, I began to wonder… is normal simply a myth that we’ve created?
Rochel Samet
Normal
Normal: Chapter 57  
Mimi feels a twinge of — what is it? Pity? Protectiveness? Caring? — for her sister
Rochel Samet
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Retrieving the letter that falls out of the envelope, I gasp as I recognize my father’s unmistakable, beautiful script

By Diane Epstein

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Cold dread mingled with an absurd sense of validation at having my fears confirmed

By Raizy Appeldorfer

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So Many Questions

I’m not exactly sure, and they can sense that. They sniff out uncertainty like bloodhounds

By Yael Zoldan