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Family First Feature
We all know the unwritten rules and keep to them. But what if we didn’t? Five Family First writers tell us about the day they bucked a social norm

By Family First Contributors

Family First Feature
Standup earns a standing ovation on life’s stage

By Chaia Frishman

Family First Inbox
“I think the more food becomes a topic of conversation in our homes, the more fixated our children become”

By Family First Readers

Family Farce: Purim 5783
Not everything my mother writes about Yitzi means that I actually did it

By Yitzi Peritzman

Family Farce: Purim 5783
If you’re a guy and you have a wife, you already know most of what I’m going to tell you

By Esty Heller

Family Farce: Purim 5783
Did you know that Mishpacha does not offer subscriptions to each of their writers’ siblings?

By Fraidel Loeb

Family Farce: Purim 5783
We speak on behalf of not only ourselves, but most children in the world today

By The Swerds Boys

Family Farce: Purim 5783
We forgot to weigh him. Daddy! How would you like it if I weighed you before and after the shul kiddush?

By Anonymous

Teen Serial
I look at her. Don’t say it, I say silently. Don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it

By Ariella Schiller

The Moment
“When I’m learning with talmidim who are learning for the first time, I have to read it on their level”

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

The Moment
We offered you some of our most ingenious ideas; here we present a few more. Here’s to a peaceful, prosperous Purim!

By Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz

Shul with a View
Only after his deposit was cashed did he notice the fine print: no pets

By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

Outlook
“Kadi justice” — a Middle Eastern sheikh sitting under a palm tree dispensing justice according to his whims of the moment

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Guestlines
The Kuzari explains that we must look at every mitzvah opportunity as a personal invitation to the King’s palace

By Rabbi Henoch Plotnik