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Family First Feature
Children of BTs navigate life as the first generation of FFBs

By Rivki Silver

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782

By Family First Contributors

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
I didn’t question our twice-yearly pilgrimage to Ner Israel during the Yamim Noraim. Tefillah should be done in the place you call your spiritual home

By Faigy Peritzman

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
“If we don’t accept this bochur, he’ll probably go to work and abandon learning. I’m not willing for Am Yisrael to lose such a talmid chacham”

By Rut Halevi

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
We found an apartment in Bnei Brak and headed to yeshivah. What I didn’t realize was that this would be an experience that would stay with me for years

By Rut Halevi

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
I grew up in yeshivah. My earliest memories involve our family — including my married sisters — sleeping in the yeshivah once a month

By Adina Lover

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
Chayei Moshe is what introduced me to this youthful chassidus, and led me down this magical rabbit hole

By Rut Halevi

My Yeshivah: Shavuos 5782
The boys would go home for Pesach and Succos, and the place lost its energy; the town became a shadow of itself

By Rivka Streicher

Text Messages
For now, the memories are still fresh, but they will fade, as will the opportunity

By Eytan Kobre

DMCs
Sometimes, it just feels like I live with a monster. A monster called perfectionism

By Devorah Grant

TableScapes

By Esther Ottensoser

Screenshot
Most of us try to be grateful for the feedback, even the negative kind

By Shoshana Friedman

Teen Diary Serial
Would I ever adjust? Would I ever become a regular girl on the block?

By Chaya Basra

The Gadol Down the Block: Shavuos 5782
"That’s why we moved here — because of Rav Shlomo Zalman, the man who sets the tone of the entire neighborhood"

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman