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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

PlateArt
We love a few small projects that add a little something special without overextending yourself

By Esther Ottensoser

Standing Ovation
“I was also crying and screaming, but in order that these Jewish cries were not in vain, I attached them to a song for the Creator”

By Dovid Nachman Golding

Recipes
The sauce is great on any protein, and the radish salad is a great contrast to the fatty lamb

By Michal Frischman

Guestlines
We must manage our expectations by trying to keep them as close to reality as possible

By Dr Meir Wikler

Open Mic
His is the story of the Jews who never had a chance

By Gedalia Guttentag

A Better You
Here are five more of the lessons I’ve learned — and I’m still learning

By Family First Contributors