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Family First Feature
Go back in time, to your childhood home. Picture the scenes, inhale the scents, and listen closely. What do you hear? 16 Recollections

By Family First Contributors

Life Lab
Decision making is exhausting. What if I get other people to make them for me?

By Esther Kurtz

Windows
Hey, this baby-on-a-respirator thing has perks. Free iced coffee!

By Toby Schorr

Rocking Horse
"Thank you for your efforts, surely you are a brave and courageous reporter and I admire your values. But these subjects do not belong in our newspaper”

By Leah Gebber

Dream On
As far as ZeeZee could tell, the Edelmans didn’t have much of anything except seforim

By Gila Arnold

LifeTakes
Davening when you’re middle-aged is very different to the naïve, generalized pleadings for a good life that I uttered in my youth

By Zehava Kaner

Parshah
We want to combine the spiritual powers of a Jew with the physical

By Faigy Peritzman

Family Reflections
Punishment isn’t the problem. How it’s given may be

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

The Soapbox
Note to the president-elect:political healing starts here

By Gedalia Guttentag

Tribute
Avreimi ztz”l could not have emerged from any other nation. (Perhaps not from any other family, either)

By Rav Yitzchok Berkovits

The Moment
Rav Aharon refused to walk to the front, knowing it would cause a stir and interrupt the hesped

By Avraham Elbaz

Send Them Off as Jews
Facing the end of life — or even seeing that possibility in the distant future — can be a gift, for all sorts of reasons

By Rabbi Daniel Rose

Encore
“Anonymous donor? Come on. Send me the wire info and I’ll tell you who it is in ten seconds flat. Give me a break”

By Dov Haller

Text Messages
There’s much truth to the idea that a sefer can have a soul

By Eytan Kobre