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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

From My Table
Yes, another eggplant dip, because that’s what keeps getting passed around the table in my house!

By Chanie Nayman

Family Reflections
The difference between shyness and social anxiety is on the inside

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Recipes
I used to make this differently, but my son came one Shabbos and brought along this dip

By Brynie Greisman

Magazine Feature
Copenhagen celebrates 400 years of Jewish history 

By Riki Goldstein

Cooks Compete
For a hearty, cozy meal-in-one, nothing beats the nourishing power of mushroom-barley soup in the winter

By Family Table Readers

The Beat
In the aftermath of the Republicans’ midterm meltdown, the MAGA deep-freeze is thawing

By Gedalia Guttentag