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Family First Feature
Four women share how they channeled their pain into a passion to help others

By Elisheva Luger

SisterSchmooze
However the BFF friendship starts, it’s a relationship to be treasured 

By Marcia Stark Meth / Emmy Leah Stark Zitter / Miriam Stark Zakon

Family Diary
How could she stand next to this guy for the rest of her life? How could she marry him, after everyone she’d passed up?

By Shani Leiman

Life Lab
Keeping house is like building Pisom and Ramses; every day your work is undone and you have to start from scratch

By Esther Kurtz

On your Mark
Peninah Pick runs the Down the Aisle Kallah gemach, where she collects people’s surplus gifts and donates them to kallahs

By Miriam Milstein

Windows
I got into my car and started to sob. So much more than a glass had been shattered the night I stood under the chuppah

By Yehudis Lieber

Rocking Horse
“A violent man is roaming the old ghetto, looking for poor families, persuading them to send away their daughters. Does that not sound suspicious?”

By Leah Gebber

Outside Chance
How funny and sad is it that I’m giving parenting advice and support to Shifra when I’m kinda muddling through it myself right now?

By Esther Kurtz

Recipes
When all you have to do is prep for 10 minutes and slide dinner into the oven, this recipe is a no-brainer! The light, simple dressing drizzled over the fish and sweet potatoes br ...

By Faigy Grossman

For the Record
While the Daf Yomi idea may have originated with Rav Meir Shapiro, a plan for affordable housing may have had its origins with his American cousin

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

PlateArt
Add some “yummy” to your “gummy”! Double your sweet by combining this old-time-favorite candy with summer’s best-known treat!

By Esther Ottensoser

Second Thoughts
In this pandemic we continue to long for reality and an escape from make-believe, and we pray that we can continue to distinguish the real from the illusory

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Bakeaways
Summertime is birthday season in our family, and nothing says “Birthdays are special” like home-baked treats! This cupcake is so simple, it requires just two bowls and a spoon, an ...

By Faigy Grossman

Guestlines
"We should go to a din Torah," I said, "to learn how the Torah wants us to resolve our conflict"

By Rabbi Avrohom Neuberger