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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

A Different Counting Shavuos 5782
What were a few bothersome appointments if they were the key to the Land of Israel?

By Yaffa Ganz

Story Time
"If you want to ever see the boy alive, you need to impress me. Quickly"

By Y. Bromberg

Magazine Feature
Tony Blair's confidant Lord Michael Levy opens doors for his people 

By Gedalia Guttentag and Yoni Klajn

A Different Counting Shavuos 5782
The words leap off the page, suddenly so much more real than prayers mumbled

By Sari Abraham

Magazine Feature
Tradition is indelible for master sofer Rabbi Shmuel Schneid

By Eytan Kobre

A Different Counting Shavuos 5782
Calmly, I called my son. “Please tell Daddy I’ve broken my leg. You’ll need to call an ambulance”

By Millie Samson