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Family First Feature
Even after loss, Rebbetzin Shterna Wolff is determined to spread light

By Riki Goldstein

Family First Feature
Shehecheyanu is the brachah on fresh chances. At the brink of a new year, we look back with gratitude over what we’ve achieved, and look forward to possibilities and potential ahe ...

By Family First Contributors

Family First Feature
Wives of famous chazzanim share what it’s like to be the woman behind the sheliach tzibbur

By Brachi Zeivald and Sarah Moses Spero

Family Diary
I was distraught. I knew Esti, and I knew Simi. How could two quality girls have this kind of unresolved history?

By Shani Leiman

On your Mark
Too many people never saw Torah’s beauty. Allison Josephs helps them discover it

By Miriam Milstein

Windows
We’re aching for what we had, pre-coronavirus, when we didn’t know how lucky we were

By Devorie Kreiman

Rocking Horse
Was it better not to ask the questions and live in a fantasy world in which one’s conscience remains clear?

By Leah Gebber

Outside Chance
Yup, she was definitely my daughter. There was a lull. I stayed quiet for as long as I could handle the silence

By Esther Kurtz

Double Take
I hoped the kehillah would welcome Luzzy, see past his shabby appearance, and understand that here was a lost soul who desperately needed our kindness

By Rochel Samet

PlateArt
Thank you, Ariella, for giving us a stepby-step guide on how to make these adorable apple pretzels for Rosh Hashanah

By Esther Ottensoser

Second Thoughts
Only one way remained open, and that happened to be the highway that led directly to the palace and the king

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Parshah
Chesed and emes aren’t opposites — they go hand in hand

By Faigy Peritzman

Encore
“You realize you made it, Portman, right? Like, you’ve arrived?”

By Dov Haller

 
Your machzor’s power to crystallize goals, nurture dreams,and spur change

By Faigie Zelcer and Leah Gebber