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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

In the Spirit

By Chaya Rosen

The Moment
“Since you are also an Orthodox Jew, I would be overjoyed to work with you as well”

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Teen Diary Serial
“Today, as we say goodbye to our four years in high school, we leave as changed people”

By Miriam Ribiat

The Moment
“Fortunate not only to learn but to ‘take by the horns’ one of the most challenging masechtos in Shas and complete it”

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Building Dreams
I took a deep breath. We found hand-me-downs for Leiba, Miriam, and Yisroel, but there was nothing of mine that could be fixed to fit me

By Malka Grunhaus

Serial
He started his rounds. Yitz, Akiva, Eric… they were doing well. But why was Chaim sitting alone? Where was his chavrusa?

By Blimi Rabinowitz