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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

Words Unspoken
I was traumatized; not by the birth itself, but at the belief that I’d failed: as a student, as a woman, as a mother

By Anonymous

The Rose Report
 Israel-Saudi breakthrough needs more American muscle 

By Binyamin Rose

Story Time
Why was the Baal Shem Tov acting so calm when there seemed to be little time left?

By Y. Bromberg

The Moment
Rabbi Halpern pointed out that within the Gemara’s description of the Bnos Tzelafchad lies an uncanny connection to so much of who the Rebbetzin was

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

The Moment
The Lens at Camp

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Inbox
“Placing out-of-town communities near the North Pole was a total lack of sensitivity, belittling the place we live and hold dear”

By Mishpacha Readers