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Family First Feature
Therapy is complex, grueling — and rewarding

By Family First Contributors

Family First Feature
An assimilated Jew, she discovered light and life in chassidus

By Rivka Streicher

Medical Mysteries
I couldn’t lose my hearing overnight — could I?

By Rachael Lavon

Family First Inbox
"A lot of us find ourselves in the position of being the “Shabbos goy” when it comes to having Internet"

By Family First Readers

Family Diary
This time, when Yehudis hung up, I didn’t have that heavy-hearted feeling. It felt more like hope

By Shani Leiman

Two Cents
"Would it kill them to send a note, preferably not written on a scrap of neon paper that’s buried under —and bleeding into —a heap of wet laundry?"

By Chana Fishman and Michali Naiman

Windows
There was one problem: I’m scared of THE BALL. You know, the ball

By Racheli Lebovics

Family Tempo
Just about everything — from the time he left the Mirrer Yeshivah until he married our mother — was wrapped in layers of secrecy

By Shayna Gutke Poupko

Feature Videos

By Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz

Outlook
"I had no concept of mitzvos as obligatory. I thought they were more like extra credit points"

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Dream On
Zeezee didn’t know what she would do when she got there, but she needed to go, to prove to herself that she wasn’t a quitter

By Gila Arnold

LifeTakes
 “You’ll see,” she said in a soft, melodic voice. “This will be motherhood, just a different kind"

By Simi Leitner

Halachah
Can I send an email to someone in a different time zone where it’s still Shabbos?

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

Magazine Feature
Rabbi Meir Posen has been traversing the length and breadth of the globe to build and supervise mikvaos for over half a century

By C.S. Teitelbaum