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Family First Feature
When illness overturned Chani Brand’s world, her faith was her anchor

By Chani Leiser

SisterSchmooze
As we’ve learned, sometimes, you’ve got to… Do It Yourself

By Marcia Stark Meth / Emmy Leah Stark Zitter / Miriam Stark Zakon

Family First Inbox
“How we see ourselves as Jewish women in a world with a tortured and unhappy definition of a woman is something we must hold sacrosanct”

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
The veil hanging in my bedroom reminded me of all I had to daven for

By Bracha Stein

Musings
This house, with its dearth of closets, was going to be mighty intolerant of Things

By Raizy Appeldorfer

Windows
I carried the story of Tali and her mother in my heart throughout my childhood

By Tali Edelstein

A Better You
How can trauma affect a marriage, and what can you do about it?

By Family First Contributors

To Be Honest

By Lisa Twerski LCSW

Building Dreams
“What does it say about me?” I demanded. What did Bubbe know about me anyway?

By Malka Grunhaus

Normal
“We need to be original for a change. We never come up with anything really different,” Toby remarks

By Rochel Samet

School Daze
I can’t wait to see Mrs. Taub’s reaction when I get everything right. (At least, I hope!)

By Perel Stone

Family First Serial
Mashiach — the anointed one — he must be here, somewhere, born and walking the earth, waiting to pick up all the fragments of their nation, to bring peace

By Leah Gebber

From My Table
I guess I’m on a dessert dry spell because I keep “not having time” until it’s Erev Shabbos and then I just need a hack. This one is a keeper.

By Chanie Nayman

Flashback
Imagine the impact if we say to this child, “Jealousy is such a difficult challenge — I often struggle with it myself”

By Rabbi Dovid Hochberg