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Personal Accounts
Week after week, we aim to inspire you. Now, you shared the stories of how Family First impacted you, from small exp ...

By Mishpacha Readers

C is for Courage
Almost four years have passed. Almost four years since that hot summer day when I was diagnosed with cancer. Who would’ ...

By Esty Bloom

Kovna Rewrite
Stepping into the Moadon HaYehudi in Kaunas, Lithuania, feels like venturing up (down?) Penrose’s impossible staircase, stepping ...

By Esther Teichtal

Family Diary
It’s always the busiest right before the best, when the day culminates over steaming food and a clear head, my beloved ...

By Sima Rappaport

Fiction
“Tamar, we don’t want to go back there — to what happened before Shiffy’s wedding. Remember? In Three Steps? The shoppi ...

By Faigy Feurst

Free Fall
Moe impulsively decides to accompany Harry to the nearby town for the last few hours of their leave. Annie prepares to ...

By Miriam Stark Zakon

Learning Curve
Aviva’s sister is making an upsheren and she expects Aviva to contribute elaborate baked goods. Yael protests Aviva’s judgmen ...

By Gila Arnold

Parshah
My neighbor had no questions, no anger

By Miriam Aflalo

Fundamentals
This is what injustice looks like,

By Rebbetzin Debbie Greenblatt

Text Messages
Indeed, the more seemingly endless the universe is discovered to be, the more it puts into stark relief the singularity ...

By Eytan Kobre

EndNote
Many people have thanked me for the song because it helps them connect to their deepest reserves of emunah during hard ...

By Riki Goldstein

Jewish Geography
With four full months to Election Day, it’s too early to call the race, especially between two highly competitive people ...

By Binyamin Rose

LifeLines
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” I was just three years old when my Bubby’s friend asked me the ques ...

By C. Saphir

Point of View
Rav Shach asked us not to glorify the IDF or the government leaders, even though we were writing for a secular audie ...

By Rabbi Moshe Grylak zt"l