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Hadassah Adler
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Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod
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Rochel (Grunewald) Samet
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Aliza Goldman
the Places You'll Go
When cabin fever hits, some of the most surprising excursions aren’t too far from your own backyard
Zivia Reischer
the Places You'll Go
When cabin fever hits, some of the most surprising excursions aren’t too far from your own backyard
Riki Goldstein
Best Food Forward
The house was perfectly clean, the table picture-perfect, the food cooked to perfection. And I was a perfect wreck Perfect. Everything will be perfect. I’ll have a perfect menu, a perfect table, and a perfectly clean house. My husband of six months had just informed me that he would be completing a masechta the next
Chanie Apfelbaum
Best Food Forward
The house was perfectly clean, the table picture-perfect, the food cooked to perfection. And I was a perfect wreck Perfect. Everything will be perfect. I’ll have a perfect menu, a perfect table, and a perfectly clean house. My husband of six months had just informed me that he would be completing a masechta the next
Chanie Apfelbaum
Connect Two
“Write a sample journal entry and show it to your kids, so they know what the goal is”
D. Himy, M.S. CCC-SLP and Zivia Reischer
Connect Two
"She needs to be able to understand age-appropriate books, but she isn’t yet fluent enough to read them”
D. Himy, M.S. CCC-SLP and Zivia Reischer
Every Song Has Its Story
Do we ever think much about, or even know, what motivated our favorite song?
Riki Goldstein
Every Song Has Its Story
“In place of a sefer Torah,” he told the group, “let us carry this child, who represents the future of the Jewish people”
Riki Goldstein
Dinner Diaries
Family First reader Shoshana Friedman shares her kid-friendly, health-minded meals
Riki Goldstein
Dinner Diaries
Real-world meal strategies from Family First reader Chani Klein
Riki Goldstein
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