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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

PlateArt
Fun to make, fun to eat, a winner all around!

By Esther Ottensoser

Off the Couch
“Psychedelic mushrooms, Dr. Freedman. You know what I’m talking about"

By Jacob L. Freedman MD

PlateArt
Here’s a fun-to-make idea that captures all the “yum” of whipped cream and looks adorable too.

By Esther Ottensoser

Outlook
“I did nothing that any other Jew would not have done for his mother”

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Madame Chamberlaine
“Shana! Dana! Is everything okay? Why are the two of you wearing winter hats in this heat?!”

By Tzipie Wolner

Double Dance
Miri felt like a proud grandmother. Seeing her stepfather take interest in Eli filled her with immense joy

By Bracha Rosman