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Family First Feature
Parents of children with invisible disabilities share some of their struggles and tell us how we can make the world a safer, less judgmental place 

By Rivki Silver

Family First Inbox
"If you were uncomfortable with the story, instead of feeling threatened, you can feel thankful that this message isn’t a lifesaver to you"

By Family First Readers

No Fail
My job was sapping me of life. But could I switch careers?

By Fay Dworetsky

Family Tempo
The choice we didn’t make niggles at me. What if we could make it again?

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

A Better You
What do we do when we “kind of” know what we need to do but we feel torn?

By Family First Contributors

Musings
It’s the private, only-for-Mom’s-eyes tantrums that bring me to my knees. “Our family is dysfunctional!”

By Yael Rosen

Sidekick
Literally every aspect of Pesach is either only survivable with a list or beautifully enhanced with a list

By Hadassah Swerds

On your Mark
Dr. Eliana Aaron cared for diplomats, but the vulnerable were her calling

By Miriam Bloch

Works for Me
"If you’ve survived a divorce, and you’ve spent years raising a family, most jobs will be a lot easier than that"

By Shaina Keren

Recipes
While I really appreciate the textural fun a crispy gnocchi brings to the table, sometimes you gotta forgo the four-pot setup in the name of simplicity.

By Michal Frischman

Off the Couch
"Hashem has to run the world because otherwise we’d need to make sense out of our pain and we can’t"

By Jacob L. Freedman MD

Family Room

By Leia Whitman Karoly

Standing Ovation
As soon as the summer was over, the three of them recorded Simchatone Volume One

By Dovid Nachman Golding

First of All
“We have so much, Aryeh. Explain this decision to me.” But her husband of 40 years is silent

By Ariella Schiller