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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

Knowing and Growing
To dig deeper, we have to learn to do something most people never do: listen again

By Rabbi Reuven Leuchter

Take 2
There is no right or wrong way to get through midterms and finals

By Mindy Rosenthal M.S., BCBA/LBA

The Gadol Down the Block: Shavuos 5782
Glimpses of greatness in our backyards

By Mishpacha Contributors

A Different Counting Shavuos 5782
For seven weeks, we’ve counted, night after night, anticipation building

By Family First Contributors

FYI
For me personally, getting my voice back to normal was a gift

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

The Gadol Down the Block: Shavuos 5782
The holiness of the Skulener Rebbe formed the backdrop of my summers — and perhaps even changed the course of my life

By Baila Vorhand