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Family First Feature
Can I motivate my kids to do their chores? One woman's valiant quest

By Rivki Silver

Family First Feature
She survived the gas chambers. Almost 80 years later, her granddaughter tells her story

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Family First Inbox
"If you’re not grown up enough to be able to take the year seriously while still enjoying yourself, please, don’t come"

By Family First Readers

Two Cents
Unsolicited advice from people with no credentials but plenty of opinions

By Chana Fishman and Michali Naiman

A Better You
It’s great to feel appreciated by others, but far more important to be able to recognize your own growth and successes

By Family First Contributors

Dream On
Whatever she ended up doing in life, she’d do it as herself. If nothing else, she’d learned that this year in seminary

By Gila Arnold

Follow Me
“Get their kids away,” Yochi ordered the blond guy. “Someone take them to a quiet place, calm them down”

By Esty Heller

Flashback
"If others can still see fuchsia and turquoise and saffron, then I know they still exist"

By Shoshana Schwartz

Diary Serial
“You can have my part. Take it along with everything else in my life. See if that makes you happy”

By Rena Wieder

The Moment
For a man who lived with fire, there’s no time like the present to ignite yet another flame

By Mishpacha Staff

Out of the Woods
“We’ll be making a seudas hodaah together,” Avi said. His friends and Elchanan’s friends...somehow, it was all the same thing now

By Rochel Samet

The Moment
"If it is because of me, please call"

By Mishpacha Staff

True Account
The key to my livelihood locked me out of real life

By Rivka Streicher

Light Years Away
Abba is such a good man. He tried to tell me that even now, if I don’t want the surgery, we won’t do it

By Ruti Kepler