Personal Accounts
Week after week, we aim to inspire you. Now, you shared the stories of how Family First impacted you, from small exp ...
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’ ...
Kovna Rewrite
Stepping into the Moadon HaYehudi in Kaunas, Lithuania, feels like venturing up (down?) Penrose’s impossible staircase, stepping ...
Family Diary
It’s always the busiest right before the best, when the day culminates over steaming food and a clear head, my beloved ...
Fiction
“Tamar, we don’t want to go back there — to what happened before Shiffy’s wedding. Remember? In Three Steps? The shoppi ...
Free Fall
Moe impulsively decides to accompany Harry to the nearby town for the last few hours of their leave. Annie prepares to ...
Learning Curve
Aviva’s sister is making an upsheren and she expects Aviva to contribute elaborate baked goods. Yael protests Aviva’s judgmen ...
Voice in the Crowd
Maybe the little, lonely man in the silk beketshe was running a legitimate Baal Shem Tov–style operation in his sorry l ...
Magazine Feature
While Israel is bracing for a third battle with Hezbollah a decade after the Second Lebanon War, is the country any ...
Jewish Geography
Are Israel’s shochtim working under dangerous conditions?
Summer Job
As Aviva sat down on the floor, trying to comfort her daughter, she could feel Dovi sitting there in silent judgment. ...
Outlook
Of those 110 e-mails, eight contained information that was top secret, the highest classification, a fact that was either ...
Second Thoughts
How does one become a thinker or a theologian? Is there an examination before one can practice thinking? Does one ...
