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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

Cut ‘n Paste
Through it all my father remembered his promise, what he’d taken upon himself on that long ago night of mourning on a hilltop

By Rivka Streicher

Family First Inbox
"Hashem must have given you siyata d’Shmaya while writing the article in the Pesach edition, because it shifted my mind frame"

By Family First Readers

Washington Wrap
America's deadly gun laws aren't going to change soon 

By Omri Nahmias

Sidekick
Sefirah comes every year; there’s a reason why we’ve accumulated 14 years of unsorted photos

By Esty Heller

For the Record
Those sounds of Torah continue to emanate from the very same building, a full century after its dedication

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Flashback
 "How many tears have you cried, asking Him to take your hand?"

By Malka Forster