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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 Healthier You
Let’s discover a bit about our kidneys, and what steps we can take to protect them

By Chaya Rosen

Hostable
Hostable with Nanette Stoll

By Nanette Stoll

Voice in the Crowd
Jews don’t hit other Jews, period. They don’t hit anyone, for that matter

By Yisroel Besser

Teen Fiction
I was comfortable with little, but I needed a job. Desperately

By Raizy Friedman

The Gadol Down the Block: Shavuos 5782
And then, one Friday night before Succos, the Rav’s home was destroyed in a devastating fire

By Moshe Benoliel

A Different Counting Shavuos 5782
And so it is, the burden I carry each day. Not of blame, or of fear, but of a vicious cycle of confusion and deep, unending self-hate — Who am I?

By Chevy Newman