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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
 I count each breath, I count each heartbeat, I count each step. I wish I can just transport myself to the end goal

By Faigy Weinberger

Building Dreams
“We wouldn’t need to heal had those Arab maniacs not tried to kill us”

By Malka Grunhaus

Magazine Feature
The life & times of Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung

By Dovi Safier

A Different Counting Shavuos 5782
Nothing compared to seeing my own mother telling these stories, creating history in real time

By Sarah Moses Spero

Day in the Life
"At first I called it the Shoel Umeishiv hotline, but a lot of boys don’t know what a shoel umeishiv is, so we changed it to Dial-a-Rebbi"

By Rachel Bachrach

A Different Counting Shavuos 5782
I finally convinced my parents that I’m not too young to go to sleepaway camp. They think I’m a baby (snort)

By Perel Grossman