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Family First Feature
Once, there were no custom sheitels, kosher cookbooks, and seminaries. These pioneers changed that

By Elisheva Appel

A Promise Kept
Sometime during that awful era, I began fiddling around on the piano

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

A Promise Kept
Ayala, I try reasoning with myself. You have two options. You can either get to work making phone calls or you can cry

By Ayala Feigenbaum

A Promise Kept
I can feel the strain through the thread. I am over effusive; she is cordial. Don’t touch me

By Shana Reicher

A Promise Kept
Baba’s loving sentiments that the all-but-forgotten promise conveyed were dear to my heart

By Avigail Rabinowitz

A Promise Kept
“What do you think?” Reb Laizor thundered. “Without mussar I would be like that too!”

By Miriam Milstein

A Promise Kept
We’d created a haven for them to unburden their hearts, and sent them away with the sweetness of home cooking

By Millie Samson

A Promise Kept
Not all promises are lost. One remains. It’s the one I made long ago

By Yocheved Katz

Family First Feature
How much do frum weddings really cost? 7 women unveil the hard numbers PLUS: JOIN THE CONVERSATION!

By Esty Heller

A Gift Passed Along
As I conjure that precious, long-ago image, one word wells up within me. Just one word: Dignity

By Eytan Kobre

Why I Do What I Do
“Reb Avraham, the zechus of supporting bereaved parents was promised to your Srulik’s neshamah. From the Six Days of Creation, this mitzvah has been waiting for you”

By Riki Goldstein

A Gift Passed Along
I wish I could sum up my legacy as succinctly for my descendants

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Namesakes
He felt he was flying this mission not as an individual, but as a representative of all of Klal Yisrael and he wanted to do it right: His hope was to keep Shabbos and kosher in sp ...

By C.S. Teitelbaum

LifeTakes
We will sit, not with parents or grandparents, but ourselves, like we do on a Tuesday evening for a lazy supper

By Rivka Streicher