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Family First Feature
Defuse fights by understanding your inner conflict

By Shira Fruchter MSW

Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
Five women connect to Yom Kippur in unexpected locations

By Sarah Pardes

Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
“Please come with me,” she begged. “It’ll be a one-time thing — and the trip won’t last more than 24 hours”

By Sarah Pardes

Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
One should never delay a burial, but my father’s wishes had been clear

By Erin Stiebel

Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
For 18 months, my husband and I drove up to the kibbutz from Bnei Brak every single Shabbos

By Sarah Pardes

Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
It wouldn’t be easy to both fast and care for my father the entire day. So, the zechus of the mitzvah fell on me

By Sarah Pardes

Connection Everywhere: Yom Kippur Theme 5783
Even as we headed into the jungle, we made sure to eat well on Erev Yom Kippur so we could fast easily

By Sarah Pardes

Family First Inbox
“With brave people like you sounding the alarm, hopefully by the time my children are parents, it will change. It must change”

By Family First Readers

Jr. Feature
A Beis Hamikdash Diary

By Sivi Sekula

For the Record
His new “Proik Yas Anach” soon emerged as the theme song of an eternal people facing challenging circumstances

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

FYI
I’m not sure if I’d be clinically diagnosed as an actual germophobe, but germs really creep me out, much more so than my friends

By Shoshana Itzkowitz

The Moment
“You do anything for a talmid”

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Story Time
“We have no choice but to partake in one last military expedition.” The generals passed the message along the ranks, and it spread like wildfire from Jew to Jew

By Y. Bromberg

Impressions
in the pleasant afterglow of Yom Kippur we are happy to just sit in the moment with our mitzvos

By Moshe Krakowski