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Family Activities
Easy suggestions for crepe-paper crafted blooms you can create — whatever your kids’ ages or artistic levels

By Esti Vago

Family First Editor's Letter
Every loss bring sadness, every change requires a response

By Bassi Gruen

Family First Feature
Coming back from seminary in Eretz Yisrael is always an adjustment, but this year’s homecoming is unique. A seasoned mechanches tackles the issues you may be facing 

By Mrs. Batya Weinberg

Life Lab
Will the world implode because I wasn’t watching, or will I implode because I don’t know the world is imploding?

By Esther Kurtz

Windows
Picture the scene: the wife is bawling through her mask, the husband is pacing, tissues are everywhere

By Leah Kaufman

Rocking Horse
Emmy’s failure is her own, but rather than blame his daughter, Ernst will surely hold her up as a faulty role model

By Leah Gebber

Outside Chance
"Recording me without my knowledge, while well-intentioned, just doesn’t work for me. I think it’ll put something between us, and I wouldn’t want that in our relationship”

By Esther Kurtz

Family Reflections
We can create positive associations with cleaning up so our family will enjoy doing it

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

The Day After
Less than three months after the virus hit our community, people from coast to coast and everywhere in between have signed up for this kabbalah

By Shaul C. Greenwald

The Day After
When this is over, perhaps we can suggest a subtle change. Follow your rav, for sure. But that doesn’t mean the other one is wrong

By Yisroel Besser

Know This
As a nurse in a COVID ward, I see misery — and hope, compassion, and miracles

By Elisheva Appel

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Something we’re all learning — at work, at school, even when shopping — is that there isn’t going to be an instant transformation to the “after” stage

By Shoshana Friedman

B.A.N.G Gang
"I’ve got an idea! My mother’s stocked up on shoe polish. I’m gonna go and polish the whole family’s shoes!"

By R. Atkins

 
I’ll never forget the steely look that this formidable man — who killed his first German as a boy — turned on me

By Gedalia Guttentag