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Family First Feature
At what point do we accept the grim reality? Insight and guidance on how to respond to “worst-case scenario” situations

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Opinion
Our feature outlining different families’ wedding expenses elicited a deluge of feedback. A sampling of letters and some more expense breakdowns

By Mishpacha Readers

Friendship Fix
We shared everything — and then I married her brother

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

Family Tempo
She’d ripped away the illusion that I was an innocent victim of fate, that some people were popular and others weren’t

By Batya Zuckerman

Musings
Asking for directions is not a sign of weakness. Sometimes it shows our greatest strength

By Sarah Moses Spero

Windows
We present a list of shidduch rules and systems, and explain how to apply these for the world of shidduch Zoom dates

By Chana Geela Horner

Rocking Horse
Maybe it was easier to miss her when she was gone, than live with her. Maybe he is ashamed of his shtetl wife

By Leah Gebber

Outside Chance

Avrumi just doesn’t get it. He sees it as new-age coddling, too many chinuch panels and not enough simple deretz eretz

By Esther Kurtz

Second Thoughts
Pesach has long passed, but the coronavirus has not. Here is that pre-Pesach moment, frozen in time

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

True Account
Sgt. Yosef Cohen Hy”d paid the ultimate sacrifice in defense of Am Yisrael, but sent a message of hope from Above to his grieving family

By C.S. Teitelbaum

Double Dance
She didn’t want to consider her stepmother’s feelings. She was too busy dealing with her own

By Bracha Rosman

Parshah
The severity of denying the community positive influences

By Faigy Peritzman

Words Unspoken
I cried for hours, texted you mazel tov so I shouldn’t get into trouble, and cried some more

By Anonymous

Corona Crisis
A private man, Getz nonetheless went into action. Shortly after Purim, he took out his phone and recorded a short video

By Yochonon Donn