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Esther Mandel
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Emuna Stein
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Rikki Schultz
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Hadassa Swerds
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C.M. Spiero
The Places We Call Home  
A celebration of the walls that surround, protect, and define us
Family First Contributors
The Places We Call Home  
Housing prices, mortgage rates, and inflation have skyrocketed. Yet many young couples are still buying homes. How are they doing it? And should they be?
Toby Berger
Sirens at Ne'ilah
A half century after the guns fell silent over Sinai and the Golan, revisiting the climactic scenes on the front and those inside the heart
Binyamin Rose
Sirens at Ne'ilah
As sirens wailed, soldiers mobilized, and an entire nation was gripped by fear, how did the Torah world’s leaders respond?
Meir Gold and Yair Stern
Double Take
Are you taking advantage of my daughter to build your booming businsess?
Rochel Samet
Double Take
I paid a fortune for the clinic and now I'm trapped, watching my son sinking by the day 
Rochel Samet
The Conversation Continues
Last week’s interview with Rabbi Moishe Indig and his endorsement of Zohran Mamdani generated an outpouring of responses
Mishpacha Readers
The Conversation Continues
“I don’t know why marrying for love and friendship is considered a negative or secular ideal”
Family First Readers
Great Reads: Real Life
I packed for a visit to my dying father. I walked into something far bigger
Chaya Berger
Great Reads: Real Life
Who am I to my late husband’s family?
Shoshana Gross
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Your unpaid position as shidduch-call secretary will bring you into contact with a whole gamut of people

By Miri Lederman

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“They’re not necessary, Ma,” my daughter told me. “You’re the only one who still uses yours”

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

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A child knows when others have more — or spend like they have more

By Adina Hammer

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She’s the level of nice that has always caused me to feel protective of her

By Yocheved Zerfman

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The memory of dear old Ruchel would forever remain, even when we were back at home in dull, drizzly London

By Mali Jung

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Even as we watched, we understood why our mother hated it

By Ruthie Miller