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 ...
Jewish Geography
All along, the skeptics vastly outnumbered the believers, but when Donald Trump declared, “We’re gonna win. We’re gonna win ...
Election Special
Trump’s victory raises more questions than it answers, but the first one is: how did the pollsters get it so wrong?
Election Special
With already unaffordable healthcare premiums set to rise 25% or more, it’s no wonder the future of Obamacare became a hot-button campaign issue this election.
Election Special
The country has seen some scurrilous campaigning before, arguably even worse than that of 2016. In each case, the nation and the democratic process survived
