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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

Washington Wrap
Jerusalem is pessimistic about the agency’s chances of staying active in Russia

By Omri Nahmias

Diary Serial
I woke up pretty early. I actually had a breakfast date with Totty

By Miriam Ribiat

Eye on Europe
Former chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will spend the next five weeks convincing the Tory Party to vote for them

By Y. Davis

The Beat
The IDF’s treatment of kippah-wearing soldiers has now made it abundantly clear that the army’s public square is actively secular

By Gedalia Guttentag

For the Record
One surveying the Hungarian Orthodox scene on the eve of Kristallnacht would have seen the Chasam Sofer’s legacy everywhere

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Shul with a View
Just once, I would have enjoyed being the boy who was cheered with, “Happy Birthday!”

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman