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Family First Feature
Even the best-laid plans can be overturned when the unexpected occurs. Four women share tales of what went awry at their simchahs

By Hadas Afik

Medical Mysteries
What was behind my son’s attacks of agonizing pain?

By Faigy Peritzman

Family First Inbox
“It reads as a short story, but only us, the children of narcissistic/enabling parents, know the deep pain contained within”

By Family First Readers

To Be Honest
“They’ve never really been taught my generation’s lesson — that the riches of a kollel life come along with, maybe even demand, some form of material restraint”

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
They were my siblings — yet we’d grown up in different families

By Esty Heller

A Better You
Why can being alone sometimes feel uncomfortable, even “cringey”?

By Family First Contributors

Musings
When I hear that the kallah is 21, I’m surprised. Since when do 21-year-olds look so young?

By Tali Edelstein

Sidekick
It never ceases to amaze me that I can put off anything from placing my meat order at the butcher to starting to clean for Pesach

By Sarah Moses Spero

Magazine Feature
As he readies for this year’s 100th Agudah Convention, Rabbi Naftali Miller shares his unlikely story

By Yosef Herz

Halachah
Fire and flames in halachah

By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt

Washington Wrap
The US and Europe have poured tens of billions into military aid for Ukraine, but how long can this pipeline continue?

By Omri Nahmias

Jolly Solly
“One minute he looked too sick to move — and the next he was up like a shot. He must’ve been faking all along"

By R. Atkins

The Current
MK Simcha Rothman wants the Knesset to reassert its primacy over the Supreme Court, and hand power back to the people

By Gedalia Guttentag

Story Time
Tzedakah  saves from death — but what if one was not giving tzedakah?

By Y. Bromberg