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Family First Feature
When this email landed in our inbox, it struck a chord with everyone who read it. The ensuing conversation evolved into this piece

By Family First Contributors

No Fail
The contract was going to be our big break — and then it fell through

By Fay Dworetsky

Family First Inbox
“The implication is that if a woman does ‘boot her husband out,’ she is a ‘lesser woman.’ This is a terrible misrepresentation”

By Family First Readers

Family Tempo
Instead of going on a honeymoon, I began chemo

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

A Better You
Why do women over-function in the face of illness, and why do men sometimes under-function?

By Family First Contributors

Windows
Later, as I pushed the double stroller home, I mulled over her statement. Wisdom? Me?

By Lea Pavel

Sidekick
Anyone who tells you that timing is negotiable has never missed a plane

By Sarah Moses Spero

Windows
I went away for Yom Kippur, and prayed that it would be written in the Sefer Hamaves

By Leah Goldstone

Down to a Science
You see, snow isn’t actually white. It turns out that snow is colorless and translucent

By Yael Zoldan

The Current
As the efforts to cut the courts down to size get underway, is this the last of Minister Aryeh Deri?

By Avi Blum, ESQ and Gedalia Guttentag

Jr. Serial
Ima. I want to speak to her so much, it actually hurts

By Rochel Samet

The Moment
The zoning board’s final vote was especially gratifying

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

The Moment

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

True Account
When my mother said goodbye, I knew she was making the biggest sacrifice of all

By Yaakov Wasilewicz