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Medical Mysteries
“I’m not hanging up until you tell me you’ll see a doctor today!” A mother’s intuition isn’t a small thing to ignore

By Faigy Peritzman

Family First Inbox
“Once I started therapy, I told my mother that I can’t imagine relating to a boy who didn’t have to work on himself”

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
We left Israel for a short visit. We returned 15 years later

By Beth Perkel

A Better You
Executive functioning refers to a set of mental skills that enables people to get tasks done

By Family First Contributors

Windows
Finding the shoes I wanted was proving mission impossible

By Raizy Appeldorfer

Musings
Our princess spent her first day of life undergoing a battery of tests and scans

By Gila Mensch

Family First Serial
As he moves, his tzitzis flap gently; they are dyed green, and she wonders why, for she has only seen tzitzis made of yellowing wool

By Leah Gebber

Family First Serial
Had she been kidding herself all those years? Had she really never had potential to be anything more than an amateur?

By Esther Kurtz

Jolly Solly
Uh-oh. It was Mr. Krankowitz. Any minute now, the old man would bang on their door to complain to their father

By R. Atkins

Inbox
“Struggling teens don’t get a bad message about substance abuse from an article about addiction. If anything, it would encourage them to get help before they spiral too far down a ...

By Mishpacha Readers

Teen Diary Serial
What had Mrs. Greenbaum just said? Had I misheard her? Had I misunderstood my favorite, dynamic, engaging, amazing teacher?

By Chaya Rosen

The Moment
The siyum in South Florida, where Rabbi Efrem Goldberg was one of the first rebbeim of Semichas Chaver

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

For the Record
In 1895 Ahlwardt arrived in America on a speaking tour, hoping to exploit free speech laws to inflame anti-Semitic sentiment

By Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer

Second Thoughts
Beruchim anachnu, we are all blessed to be part of the adventure of being a Jew

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman