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Family First Feature
When trauma comes with shame: three women share their stories 

By Renee Kaufman

Family First Inbox
“I’m happy for you that you're free from your obsessive thoughts — and even happier that you have no knowledge about real addiction”

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
Their home felt warm, magnetic...menacing

By Bashie Lisker

A Better You
No creates a boundary — a line demarcating what you are and are not going to do

By Family First Contributors

No Fail
I was trying to control every detail — and it wasn’t working

By Fay Dworetsky

On your Mark
Leah Kestenbaum started Cheer Up Treats, sending Shabbos dessert to people going through a difficult time

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Sidekick
How much advance prep do your guests need? Check our handy chart

By Sarah Moses Spero

Musings
There really is a monster eating all the socks. Or an elf who sneaks them away to put them on

By Hadassah Steinman

EndNote
“The words refer not only to Shemini Atzeres, but to the relationship between Hashem and the Jewish People throughout the entire year”

By Riki Goldstein

Teen Diary Serial
Knowing that we are accomplishing our mission in this world is the most fulfilling feeling

By Miriam Ribiat

EndNote
“It’s a beautiful, slow song, going through the timeless advice of the Ramban to his son”

By Riki Goldstein

Building Dreams
Three stops and then I was supposed to get off. And then Bubbe would be waiting for me. Three stops, I told myself

By Malka Grunhaus

Counterpoint
Allison Josephs’s piece, “Healing from Within,” about the correlation between OTD kids and emotional neglect, is still drawing significant and impassioned feedback

By Mishpacha Readers

Flashback
“Aroma is the undefined sense, the mystical touch between This World and the Next”

By Chany. G. Rosengarten