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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 Current
Can 22 men chasing a ball advance the cause of Mideast peace?

By Yaakov Lipszyc

The Moment
In the humble silence he desired, a nation mourns and bids a final farewell

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

The Moment
What we can do for the first 24 days of Kislev that will keep us in Chanukah mode without risking burnout

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Yiddishe Gelt
“We always celebrate birthdays, but we don’t overdo it. It’s all about getting together, learning something, making a hachlatah, making a l’chayim, making a shehecheyanu”

By Rochel Burstyn

Standing Ovation
Veteran producer Dovid Nachman Golding hosts a walk down musical memory lane

By Dovid Nachman Golding