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Family First Feature
Is the new weight loss drug a panacea — or a peril?

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Family First Inbox
“We’d appreciate you not rubbing your good fortune in our faces while we keep hoping for a new government that will grant us Sundays”

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
“Narcissist.” An ugly, nasty word, almost an onomatopoeia, hissing of insidious things

By Mimi Ashkenazi

A Better You
Practice positive self-talk: Thoughts like, I can’t do this or this is too hard for me lead to feelings of overwhelm

By Family First Contributors

No Fail
I was in way over my head, yet I kept letting others down

By Fay Dworetsky

Windows
He just ambled into the woods at the end of our street, oblivious to all the eyes following his every move

By Rebecca (Feldbaum) Steier

Sidekick
If you’re a mom, you blink at your own peril

By Hadassa Swerds

Family First Serial
How does she do it? Scratching out words and numbers and talking to him at the same time?

By Leah Gebber

The Moment
The scrolls will be sent out to 36 Chabad Houses that currently don’t own their own sefer Torah

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

On Site
We took a few pairs of tefillin to the mountains and deserts of northern New Mexico and discovered a world we never knew existed

By Jonah James

Shul with a View
It was so brilliantly simple, yet it had me scratching my head in disbelief as to why it took so long to think of

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

Guestlines
To put it simply, the test of our generation is to avoid feeling arrogant, smug, or overly confident

By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Story Time
The widow’s eyes flashed, and she drew herself up to her full height. She stood there, seething in anger and hurt

By Y. Bromberg

Flashback

By Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner