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Family First Editor's Letter
Shabbos makes us stop. Think. Notice. Experience. Reflect

By Bassi Gruen

Magazine Feature
Do you rue the fact that your house only looks good for two minutes after candle lighting? Meet Marla Cilley, aka Fl ...

By Riki Goldstein

Sister Shmooze
Call it the miracle of the cholent pot. Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, carnivorous, or celiac, whether you’re Sephardic, y ...

By Emmy Leah Stark Zitter and Marcia Stark Meth and Miriam Stark Zakon

Whispers
“You sound like you’ve had an interesting life,” the instructor said, giving me a look that was a cross between astonis ...

By Shira Hart

Real Life
She’d passed on shiurim, begged off friends’ invitations, wrapping herself in the new threads of marriage, tight to choking. ...

By Nechama Elbaz

Windows
The system of tying “sitting next to Mommy or Tatty” to “serving and clearing up for Mommy and Tatty” taught my chil ...

By Tzivia E. Adler

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 ...

By Rachael Lavon

Free Fall
At the hotel for Shabbos, Annie tells her father about the telegram announcing Bella’s death and the need to find a ...

By Miriam Stark Zakon

Outlook
Will post-election America become even more divided?

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Second Thoughts
Simchah is not just an ordinary happy-happy

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Parshah
We need to understand our own true motives,

By Miriam Aflalo

Magazine Feature
Each year, thousands of workers travel to both the United States and Israel to work in elder care, cleaning, construction ...

By Esther Ilana Rabi

Oneg Shabbos
When the butcher banged on his door dressed in shrouds, his wife thought she was seeing an apparition. Had her husband ...

By Yeruchem Yitzchak Landesman

Text Messages
No way I could have imagined the impact of my words

By Eytan Kobre