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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

Tribute
As the trusted physician of rebbes and gedolim, Dr. Eliyahu Schussheim brought his emunah into the world of healing and beyond

By Sarah Pardes

Off the Eaten Path

By Naomi Nachman

On Site
These gates will soon usher in an era we’ve been dreaming about for centuries

By Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz

The Moment
A happy return to the beis medrash

By Shuki Lehrer

Second Thoughts
The last mishnah in Sotah (49b), depicting a topsy-turvy world just before the final Redemption, has come true

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

EndNote
Eli made them a promise — that im yirtzeh Hashem, he would sing at the child’s bar mitzvah

By Riki Goldstein