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Family First Feature
Many schools teach the what; Sara Devora Chrysler teaches the why

By Shoshana R. Meiri

Family First Feature
When it comes to a teacher’s feelings, not all students are equal

By Kayla Markowitz

Family First Feature
Does mainstreaming work? Three mothers share their struggles and successes

By Zivia Reischer

Family Matters
When you’re out there on your own, after almost half a century of marriage, as I was, socializing is very complicated

By Joan Zlotnick

Real Life
“Don’t call my parents!” she says. “Don’t! You don’t — you don’t know anything! Why do you care?”

By Leah Hartman

Windows
I’d taken many of my children to their first day of first grade. But today was different

By Tova Traub

Yardsticks
To do a bridal gown on my own, not as a paid worker — it was a dream. But… but. My job. Yocheved. She was my boss, and this was her design

By Esty Heller

Vacancies
If even Hiya-Naomi could tell she was stressed, customers would be able to tell too, and that would hurt her business

By Zivia Reischer

The Rainbow Girl
Maybe that’s the thing with family, they’re so close that it’s hard to see things clearly

By Rochel (Grunewald) Samet

Outlook
Trump barely talks about race, while his adversaries are obsessed with “whiteness” and “white privilege”

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Parshah
Tzedakah has such power that it can save from death

By Faigy Peritzman

5 out of 10
Every Elul zeman begins ambitiously

By Dovid Bashevkin

Know This
As your daughter’s eim bayit, I’ll tell her the things you forgot to tell her.

By Esther Ilana Rabi

Standing Ovation
Shlomo Hill, since sixth grade you’ve been my inspiration. Yehei zichro baruch

By Dovid Nachman Golding