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Even in Australia    
Sara Bonchek
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Like Stars in the Night  
Penina Steinbruch
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When Hope Turned to Heartbreak     
Family First Contributors
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Homecoming
Bashie Lisker
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Path of Faith
Elana Moskowitz
By the Letter
Shin-Tav
Over 482 days, mother and daughter traveled parallel journeys of faith IN just a few days, the photo has become iconic: Agam Berger, newly freed from her nightmarish captivity in Gaza, sandwiched between her beaming parents in the helicopter that would bring her to an Israeli hospital, holding up a whiteboard with a message for
Mindel Kassorla and Mindel Kassorla and Cindy Landesman
By the Letter
Kuf-Reish  
Life is a cycle — and a spiral that pushes us higher
Cindy Landesman and Mindel Kassorla
FF POV
"I Think Pull Is…"     
Protektzia is baked into our society. Should it be?
Family First Readers
FF POV
The Parents' Role in Homework Is…  
Kids are overwhelmed, parents are overworked. Just whose job is this homework, anyway?
Family First Readers
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
Works of Art
The Best Banner
“Maybe we’ll do it your way in the end, but if someone else has a different idea, they’re allowed to say it!”
Zivia Reischer
Works of Art
The Painting  
She looked down at the canvas, moving it in the moonlight until she could see the image it held
Malka Winner
Sirens at Ne'ilah
Settling Unfinished Scores
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
Tears and Tehillim
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
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The Mouths of Babes 

Of course, my children know about the war; we live in Israel! We’ve had to run for shelter! But…

By Esther Mandel

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The Death of a Jew      

My children are saddened, solemn. But they’re not horrified. It’s 2024

By Rachael Lavon

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Hotel Away from Home

It’s hard. Even the friendliest hotel is not home

By Carol Ungar

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The War and Kitchen Avoidance

It’s just that I prefer avoiding cooking to the actual cooking sometimes

By Esther Mandel

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Miracles and Wonders

We may be crazy for living here—but we’re not wrong

By Yonah Levin Chatzinoff

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In the Shadows

Life in the shadow of October 7

By Family First Readers and Staff