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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

Down to a Science
The average American eats about 140 pounds of potatoes a year

By Yael Zoldan

EndNote
“It took Klal Yisrael by storm when it was released in the aftermath of the horrific Friday night murder of the Fogel family from Itamar in 2011”

By Riki Goldstein

Story Time
“You know what? If there’s any chance of the king granting you an audience, it would be through your daughter"

By Y. Bromberg

Ask Rabbi Greenwald
“We're using blanket rules to shroud the values behind them”

By Rabbi Zecharya Greenwald

Family First Serial
Shira was genuinely shocked. Was her mother-in-law really changing, or was she imagining it? Or maybe she was just that desperate to get rid of them

By Esther Kurtz

LifeTakes
I’m engrossed in the squiggles on my screen when… crash, clatter, thump. I run and halt at a kitchen disaster zone

By Leah Wachsler