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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

Jolly Solly
“Why don’t you tell me all about your machzor,” said Jolly Solly. “It does sound like a very valuable item”

By R. Atkins

The Moment
A time to celebrate the past year’s accomplishments and gear up for an even better year, b’ezras Hashem

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Normal
They go through this every year — Ella insisting on one last get-together before she and her parents leave for their annual exotic Pesach hotel experience

By Rochel Samet

True Account
Here I was, all alone in the wilderness with a pen and paper as my sole witnesses — which was both terrifying and thrilling

By Yosef Zoimen

From My Table
We’ve had a handful of recipes using oven-roasted beef fry in Family Table over the course of the last year. I still enjoy it in salads, as I think it gives a great contrast of fl ...

By Chanie Nayman

Second Thoughts
There is no single answer to the mystery of the shofar. But let us examine one approach

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman