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Family First Feature
Rebbetzin Devorah Kirshboim’s faith is a fusion of Breslov and Novardok

By Linda Herschel

Family First Inbox
"Whether it’s a hobby, a volunteer activity, or a new job, we need to keep growing. Which will minimize inappropriately turning to our adult children to have our needs met"

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
This comment was a dagger to my heart. Boring? How could my own husband find me boring?

By Roizy Baum 

A Better You
Keeping our internal conversation loving is a gift and an obligation to ourselves

By Family First Contributors

No Fail
I had a moment of clarity. “I want to share the power of inner work with other frum women,” I said

By Fay Dworetsky

Windows
A stir-fry, for crying out loud. In recipe-developer-land, did no one let slip that a stir-fry is a combination food?

By Elisheva Appel

Musings
The girl can barely speak, the lump in her throat is so large. And she cries brokenly as she tells him that she’s reached a dead end

By Bassheva Kahn

Sidekick
I’m the only woman I know who even owns noise-canceling headphones. I got them as a gift. From my husband, of course

By Shaina King

The Lens
The trip wouldn’t have so much to do with the past, yet everything to do with the present and future

By Dovi Safier

Bakeaways
They’re tastier than the store-bought versions and the flavor options are pretty much endless!

By Faigy Grossmann

Second Dance
Chedva was keeping the rule — the one rule! — sitting in her seat quietly the entire lesson, but she was wrecking everything

By Dov Haller

Off the Couch
"You’ve got to get his family here ASAP and have them take achrayus"

By Jacob L. Freedman MD

Outlook
Life itself supplies us with many invaluable mussar lessons if we just pay attention

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Guestlines
How hard do we work to leave our children things that they either do not want or do not need?

By Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg