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Family First Feature
As we wend our way through cities, as we visit distant countries, as we travel and explore, we make unexpected discoveries. Eight stories

By Family First Contributors

Family First Inbox
Almost every frum Jew today has someone in their life who is at risk of being cremated

By Family First Readers

The Conversation Continues
Our shidduch stats generated a great deal of discussion. Savvy singles and seasoned shadchanim offer their insights into the process

By Family First Contributors

Family Tempo
No one was there, aside from me, and it was just voices on the other side of the curtain, cocooning me in a vision only I could see and feel

By Esther Kurtz

A Better You
How do we learn to believe in ourselves and feel empowered to do things that feel out of reach? Try I C.A.N. 

By Family First Contributors

Sidekick
Like many other parents on the force, I began my parenting career at the most basic entry level

By Hadassah Swerds

Family First Serial
“They have sworn loyalty, yes. But at the end of the day, everyone is only loyal to his own interests, would you not say?”

By Leah Gebber

Family First Serial
The past few weeks of loneliness melted from Shira’s mind. She and Ephraim, working together. He was going to get an A

By Esther Kurtz

Man With a Pan
I don’t do side dishes — could I dish up enough for two more families anyway?

By Joe Blumenthal

LifeTakes

By Dini Schonbrun

Family Room
Setting a beautiful table can be a spiritual act and a concrete way to welcome Shabbos.

By Shoshana Batya Greenwald

Spirit and Sparks
Is shame the root of your baseless hatred?

By Baila Vorhand

Magazine Feature
Hopes, prayers, and words of wisdom at the doorway to Elul: A collection of letters between rebbeim and talmidim, parents and children, rabbis and their congregants

By Shmuel Botnick

Story Time
“It’s the insignia of the Russians! The soldiers were likely not coming at behest of the poritz, but perhaps to fight the poritz!”

By Y. Bromberg