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Family Reflections
Pesach is a reflection of our lives — and the chance to better it

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Fundamentals
Kri’as Yam Suf inhabits a unique position

By Mrs. Elana Moskowitz

Connect Two
“They say the window of opportunity is closing”

By D. Himy, M.S. CCC-SLP and Zivia Reischer

Words Unspoken
I don’t want conversations filled with awkward pauses

By Anonymous

Magazine Feature
A teacup. A salt shaker. A stockpot. They’re simple objects, but they’re layered with stories. Thirteen accounts

By Family First Contributors

Family Tempo
I want to leave. Leave the store and the girl and her round green eyes and the questions splayed across her forehead

By Rachael Lavon

Windows
Unwilling to drive home from the first Seder as she had done in previous years, she was going to spend the first Seder alone

By Debbie Goldman

True Account
Sophomore year, I walked into a bookstore in the Jewish neighborhood. What was probably a typical seforim store felt, at the time, like a suffocating closet of truth

By Abby Delouya B.A, B.Ed, MFT

Cut ‘n Paste
Laureate’s Chef Buck, is a 60-something non-Jew who will surely merit Olam Haba. He is most certainly from the Chassidei Umos Ha’olam

By Zev Light

LifeLines
Until the day I got married, at the age of 20, I handed over every penny I earned to my father to help pay the bills

By C. Saphir

Encounters
“If you won’t give me potatoes, then I’ll have to manage without any food.I have never eaten chometz on Pesach, and I will not start now”

By Rivka Junger

Symposium
Reexamining our allegiances, involvement, and expectations in a turbulent political landscape

By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein

Symposium
Reexamining our allegiances, involvement, and expectations in a turbulent political landscape

By Hank Sheinkopf