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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

Second Thoughts
Precisely because Tishah B’Av is approaching, I am not depressed, but encouraged

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

EndNote
Somehow, in the depth of pain and mourning that is Megillas Eichah, we’ve found snatches of solace, and made them our songs of yearning and dreams

By Riki Goldstein

Guestlines
In the face of personal challenge, how should a person endeavor to react?

By Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky