Family First Editor's Letter
Shabbos makes us stop. Think. Notice. Experience. Reflect
Magazine Feature
Do you rue the fact that your house only looks good for two minutes after candle lighting? Meet Marla Cilley, aka Fl ...
Sister Shmooze
Call it the miracle of the cholent pot. Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, carnivorous, or celiac, whether you’re Sephardic, y ...
Whispers
“You sound like you’ve had an interesting life,” the instructor said, giving me a look that was a cross between astonis ...
Real Life
She’d passed on shiurim, begged off friends’ invitations, wrapping herself in the new threads of marriage, tight to choking. ...
Windows
The system of tying “sitting next to Mommy or Tatty” to “serving and clearing up for Mommy and Tatty” taught my chil ...
House of Mirrors
Laylee’s father demands a plan about the shul, which Gavi ad-libs. He pledges half the sum to Gavi and Laylee if the ...
Free Fall
At the hotel for Shabbos, Annie tells her father about the telegram announcing Bella’s death and the need to find a ...
Learning Curve
Yael spends Shabbos at her parents’ home and makes demeaning comments about her sister-in-law. Ephraim gets angry at her, ...
Tribute
It’s been five years since the passing of Rosh Yeshivah Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel ztz”l, yet striving for growth and deter ...
Jewish Geography
Supreme Court sets late-November date for solution
LifeLines
I realized, much to my dismay, that I had not enjoyed one moment with Yedidya. Was this the same person I had gon ...
