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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

Recipes
Trying out new recipes might be tempting, but not if mom has to defrost pizza for her kids who don’t want to touch your funky, Indian-inspired stir-fry.

By Sima Kazarnovsky

EndNote
"I definitely thought of Miss Schwartz when I wrote ‘Stand Up for Our Morahs'"

By Riki Goldstein

Side-by-Side
For me, taking out my mixer requires a very compelling reason. Does a Bundt cake count as one?

By Sina Mizrahi

Knowing and Growing
The key to balancing two obligations is to want them both

By Rabbi Reuven Leuchter

Family Room
Two designers debate the why’s and how’s of their go-to design aesthetic

By Aeden Farkas and Rivki Rabinowitz

Parshah
We believe whatever we do in This World will be heard in the World to Come.

By Faigy Peritzman