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Family First Feature
The kindness the Kaliver Rebbetzin, Rebbetzin Chana Sarah Shifra Taub, planted gave shattered survivors strong roots

By Shaindy Horowitz

Personal Accounts
Bereaved women share what gave them the strength and the courage to keep moving forward

By Shterna Karp

Family Diary
“You!” he said, pointing to Basya, who seemed to be organizing everything. “You go find out about the kesubah”

By Shani Leiman

Family Tempo
How could I wait while the world moved on and I was a ghost of myself — not a mother, not a daughter, not a wife?

By Leeba Atlas

Windows
I am scared, so scared, to enter that place of pain. The place that all year, I work to scrape off of myself

By Henny Salzman

Rocking Horse
They were nothings. Nothings. Nothings. Just trodden-in-the-mud Jews. Just girls, dependent on fathers and brothers for their safety

By Leah Gebber

Outside Chance
They wanted to pay me to speak? Funniest thing ever

By Esther Kurtz

LifeTakes
Motherhood changes everyone, but I found the transition monumental

By Shevy Weiss

LifeLines
My wife refused the medication that would save our marriage

By C. Saphir

Off the Couch
"I’m not sure I want to go back there, even on the other side”

By Jacob L. Freedman MD

Outlook
A resolve to try to be a better Jew. Precisely what Reb Yossele intended

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Know This
My children never rebelled,they just wiggled out of my grasp

By Rochel Strauss

Story Time
The Rebbe stared intently at his attendant. “You must not see the words I am writing. They must be concealed from your eyes”

By Y. Bromberg

Moonwalk
Infusions? Being hooked up to an IV every month to get medication? 

By Rochel Samet