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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

Year in Review
The pandemic hasn’t so much marked the dawning of a new age as accelerated pre-existing trends

By Gedalia Guttentag

Bakeaways
Can you go into Rosh Hashanah without a jar of honey cookies?!

By Faigy Grossman

For the Record
While both Rav Chaim Ozer and the Chofetz Chaim were able to reestablish themselves in independent Poland, they never ceased in their attempts to assist the Jews of Russia

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

PlateArt
Surprise your family this Yom Tov with a delicious treat of sautéed leek hidden in the center of your round challah

By Esther Ottensoser

Impressions
We show our grandchildren where we grew up, telling them stories about the “good old days”

By Pesi Teitelbaum

Family Reflections
We can’t become a new person. But we can change our old neural wiring

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe