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“You need to choose to fight this monster or he’ll get the better of you. You can live a happy life, you can break free of this. The first step is to want to get better.”

By Michal Marcus

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“I’m not going to be riding horses anymore. And I couldn’t find a way to tell you, so I didn’t. But seeing as you’re here anyway, coming to tell me about other bad choices I’m mak ...

By Rachel Newton

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“It’s your job, to make her smile, to bring her happiness, and a girl like this, she can use it. You’ll know what you have to do. It’s not as easy as you think, but it’s also not ...

By Dov Haller

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What does that feel like, to be at peace with your lot in life, even if that lot is standing at the corner of Kikar Shabbos and Malchei Yisrael on a cool Jerusalem morning, annoyi ...

By Ariella Schiller

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Now Jacob’s pathetic cries were a mockery, and I trembled, my knees pulled tight up to my chin. I could not, would not hold him in my arms and watch him slip away. Not again

By Perl Weisz

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Sometimes you need to play nice, and dumb, and keep your insights to yourself. Sometimes you walk away even when you probably should stay. And you never tell people the answer — t ...

By Esther Kurtz

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It was different before the birth, what did he have then? Grainy images, a sound like a horse or a train that they said was a heartbeat, a baby that seemed all Denya’s — and now t ...

By Rivka Streicher

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Wrinkles are an honor when grandchildren count them. He has his four grandchildren from his son Meir. I, as he’s well aware, am a bubby to no one.

By Esty Heller

Family First Feature
Family First convenes a panel to study why we’re so overwhelmed — and how to combat it

By Naomie Rubner

Magazine Feature
Nachi Weinstein, the bibliophile behind the seforim chatter podcast

By Yosef Herz

Family First Feature
 In this honest diary, Batya Sherizen recounts how encountering death shaped her into the woman she is today

By Batya Sherizen and Rafaella Levine

Magazine Feature
The best indication that the bodyguards for Israel’s Yom Tov guests are doing their job is that you can’t even tell they’re around

By Rachel Ginsberg

To Be Honest
For some reason, Klal Yisrael’s hearts and pocketbooks just don’t open in the same way when it comes to families of divorce

By Batsheva Kirsch

Heaven-Sent: Pesach Theme 5783
This Yom Tov, when Eliyahu HaNavi visits every household, we share a collection of first-person encounters, tales of miraculous intervention by a mysterious figure

By Rachel Bachrach